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CVE-2022-44840

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-08-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils readelf before 2.40 via function find_section_in_set in file readelf.c.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: before 2.40 — fixed in 2.40

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GNU Binutils 2.40. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29732
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29732

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