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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2023-25588): GNU binutils vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2023-25588): GNU binutils vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/24/2023
Created
05/25/2023
Added
05/25/2023
Modified
09/22/2023

Description

A flaw was found in Binutils. The field `the_bfd` of `asymbol`struct is uninitialized in the `bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab` function, which may lead to an application crash and local denial of service.

Solution(s)

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

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