There's a flaw in the BFD library of binutils in versions...
High severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 24, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Jan 27, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Apr 15, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 24, 2022
Last updated
Jan 27, 2023
There's a flaw in the BFD library of binutils in versions before 2.36. An attacker who supplies a crafted file to an application linked with BFD, and using the DWARF functionality, could cause an impact to system availability by way of excessive memory consumption.
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