CVE-2023-25588

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-25588
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-25588.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-25588
Downstream
Related
Published
2023-09-14T20:47:16Z
Modified
2026-08-27T11:30:35Z
Severity
  • 4.7 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Field `the_bfd` of `asymbol` is uninitialized in function `bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab`
Details

A flaw was found in Binutils. The field the_bfd of asymbolstruct is uninitialized in the bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab function, which may lead to an application crash and local denial of service.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner":  "redhat",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-457"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/25xxx/CVE-2023-25588.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
Events
Introduced
32778522c7d8777803c88684b8e428ee729f0b22
Last Affected
32778522c7d8777803c88684b8e428ee729f0b22
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.40:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "2.40"
        },
        {
            "last_affected":  "2.40"
        }
    ],
    "source":  "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.40
Other
binutils-2_40

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-25588.json"