FKIE_CVE-2023-25586

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-09-14 21:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 05:41
Severity
4.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A flaw was found in Binutils. A logic fail in the bfd_init_section_decompress_status function may lead to the use of an uninitialized variable that can cause a crash and local denial of service.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-25586Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2167502Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231103-0003/
secalert@redhat.comhttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29855Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=5830876a0cca17bef3b2d54908928e72cca53502Mailing List, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-25586Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2167502Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231103-0003/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29855Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=5830876a0cca17bef3b2d54908928e72cca53502Mailing List, Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
gnu binutils 2.40
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