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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2022-4285): GNU binutils vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2022-4285): GNU binutils vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/27/2023
Created
12/13/2023
Added
12/12/2023
Modified
12/12/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-binutils
  • ubuntu-upgrade-binutils-multiarch

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