CVE-2022-35205

Publication date 22 August 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

An issue was discovered in Binutils readelf 2.38.50, reachable assertion failure in function display_debug_names allows attackers to cause a denial of service.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
binutils	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2.38-4ubuntu2.4
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2.34-6ubuntu1.7
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.9+esm3 Ubuntu Pro
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

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Notes

seth-arnold

binutils isn't safe for untrusted inputs.

ccdm94

display_debug_names was added with commit 613643582c4f, not included in the binutils code for xenial and earlier.

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
binutils	Upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=e3e5ae049371a27fd1737aba946fe26d06e029b5

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H