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Alma Linux: CVE-2022-4285: Moderate: binutils security update (ALSA-2023-6593)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2022-4285: Moderate: binutils security update (ALSA-2023-6593)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/27/2023
Created
05/23/2023
Added
05/23/2023
Modified
04/26/2024

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-binutils
  • alma-upgrade-binutils-devel
  • alma-upgrade-binutils-gold

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