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CVE-2022-38533

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-08-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

In GNU Binutils before 2.40, there is a heap-buffer-overflow in the error function bfd_getl32 when called from the strip_main function in strip-new via a crafted file.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 36, 37
• GNU Binutils: through 2.39

References

• https://github.com/bminor/binutils-gdb/commit/45d92439aebd0386ef8af76e1796d08cfe457e1d
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6AKZ2DTS3ATVN5PANNVLKLE5OP4OF25Q/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7MTEHT3G6YKJ7F7MSGWYSI4UM3XBAYXZ/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-15
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221104-0007/
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29482
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29482#c2
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29495
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=45d92439aebd0386ef8af76e1796d08cfe457e1d
• https://github.com/bminor/binutils-gdb/commit/45d92439aebd0386ef8af76e1796d08cfe457e1d
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6AKZ2DTS3ATVN5PANNVLKLE5OP4OF25Q/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7MTEHT3G6YKJ7F7MSGWYSI4UM3XBAYXZ/

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