CVE-2022-4285

2023-01-2700:00:00

ubuntu.com

5.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

1.9 Low

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

18.9%

JSON

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.

Bugs

<https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29699>

Notes

Author	Note
seth-arnold	binutils isn’t safe for untrusted inputs.
rodrigo-zaiden	versions earlier than 2.35 are not affected.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu22.04noarchbinutils< 2.38-4ubuntu2.4UNKNOWN
ubuntu18.04noarchbinutils-avr< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu20.04noarchbinutils-avr< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu22.04noarchbinutils-avr< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu23.10noarchbinutils-avr< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu24.04noarchbinutils-avr< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu16.04noarchbinutils-avr< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu18.04noarchgdb< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu20.04noarchgdb< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu22.04noarchgdb< anyUNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
ubuntu	22.04	noarch	binutils	< 2.38-4ubuntu2.4	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	18.04	noarch	binutils-avr	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	20.04	noarch	binutils-avr	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	22.04	noarch	binutils-avr	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	23.10	noarch	binutils-avr	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	24.04	noarch	binutils-avr	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	16.04	noarch	binutils-avr	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	18.04	noarch	gdb	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	20.04	noarch	gdb	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	22.04	noarch	gdb	< any	UNKNOWN