CVE-2023-1972
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-05-17 00:00
Modified
2024-08-02 06:05
Severity ?
Summary
A potential heap based buffer overflow was found in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables() in bfd/elf.c. This may lead to loss of availability.
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