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CVE-2023-1579

• 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: 2023-04-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap based buffer overflow in binutils-gdb/bfd/libbfd.c in bfd_getl64.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: 2.39

References

• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-15
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230511-0009/
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29988
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=11d171f1910b508a81d21faa087ad1af573407d8
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-15
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230511-0009/
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29988
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=11d171f1910b508a81d21faa087ad1af573407d8

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