Binutils Security Vulnerabilities - 2023

CVE-2020-19724

A memory consumption issue in get_data function in binutils/nm.c in GNU nm before 2.34 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted command.

CVE-2020-19726

An issue was discovered in binutils libbfd.c 2.36 relating to the auxiliary symbol data allows attackers to read or write to system memory or cause a denial of service.

CVE-2020-21490

An issue was discovered in GNU Binutils 2.34. It is a memory leak when process microblaze-dis.c. This one will consume memory on each insn disassembled.

CVE-2020-35342

GNU Binutils before 2.34 has an uninitialized-heap vulnerability in function tic4x_print_cond (file opcodes/tic4x-dis.c) which could allow attackers to make an information leak.

CVE-2021-32256

An issue was discovered in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.36. It is a stack-overflow issue in demangle_type in rust-demangle.c.

CVE-2021-46174

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in function bfd_getl32 in Binutils objdump 3.37.

CVE-2022-35205

An issue was discovered in Binutils readelf 2.38.50, reachable assertion failure in function display_debug_names allows attackers to cause a denial of service.

CVE-2022-35206

Null pointer dereference vulnerability in Binutils readelf 2.38.50 via function read_and_display_attr_value in file dwarf.c.

CVE-2022-4285

An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-16599.

CVE-2022-44840

Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils readelf before 2.40 via function find_section_in_set in file readelf.c.

CVE-2022-45703

Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils readelf before 2.40 via function display_debug_section in file readelf.c.

CVE-2022-47007

An issue was discovered function stab_demangle_v3_arg in stabs.c in Binutils 2.34 thru 2.38, allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to memory leaks.

CVE-2022-47008

An issue was discovered function make_tempdir, and make_tempname in bucomm.c in Binutils 2.34 thru 2.38, allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to memory leaks.

CVE-2022-47010

An issue was discovered function pr_function_type in prdbg.c in Binutils 2.34 thru 2.38, allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to memory leaks.

CVE-2022-47011

An issue was discovered function parse_stab_struct_fields in stabs.c in Binutils 2.34 thru 2.38, allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to memory leaks.

CVE-2022-47673

An issue was discovered in Binutils addr2line before 2.39.3, function parse_module contains multiple out of bound reads which may cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts.

CVE-2022-47695

An issue was discovered Binutils objdump before 2.39.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts via function bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab in match-o.c.

CVE-2022-47696

An issue was discovered Binutils objdump before 2.39.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts via function compare_symbols.

CVE-2022-48063

GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the function load_separate_debug_files at dwarf2.c. The attacker could supply a crafted ELF file and cause a DNS attack.

CVE-2022-48064

GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the function bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line_with_alt at dwarf2.c. The attacker could supply a crafted ELF file and cause a DNS attack.

CVE-2022-48065

GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain a memory leak vulnerability var the function find_abstract_instance in dwarf2.c.

CVE-2023-1579

Heap based buffer overflow in binutils-gdb/bfd/libbfd.c in bfd_getl64.

CVE-2023-1972

A potential heap based buffer overflow was found in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables() in bfd/elf.c. This may lead to loss of availability.

CVE-2023-25584

An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the parse_module function in bfd/vms-alpha.c in Binutils.

CVE-2023-25585

A flaw was found in Binutils. The use of an uninitialized field in the struct module *module may lead to application crash and local denial of service.

CVE-2023-25586

A flaw was found in Binutils. A logic fail in the bfd_init_section_decompress_status function may lead to the use of an uninitialized variable that can cause a crash and local denial of service.

CVE-2023-25588

A flaw was found in Binutils. The field the_bfd of asymbolstruct is uninitialized in the bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab function, which may lead to an application crash and local denial of service.