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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-38533: Out-of-bounds Write

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-38533: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
08/25/2022
Created
03/22/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
04/09/2024

Description

In GNU Binutils before 2.40, there is a heap-buffer-overflow in the error function bfd_getl32 when called from the strip_main function in strip-new via a crafted file.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-binutils

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