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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2022-38533: GNU Binutils: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 26, 2022
Added
Oct 2, 2023
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

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

gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-devel-binutils
Title
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