CVE-2022-48063

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2023-08-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-400

Description

GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the function load_separate_debug_files at dwarf2.c. The attacker could supply a crafted ELF file and cause a DNS attack.

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://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231006-0008/
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29924
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=75393a2d54bcc40053e5262a3de9d70c5ebfbbfd
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231006-0008/
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29924
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=75393a2d54bcc40053e5262a3de9d70c5ebfbbfd

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