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
2023-09-14T20:47:16.974Z
Modified
2026-05-28T04:08:33.016542285Z
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 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/25xxx/CVE-2023-25588.json",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-457"
    ],
    "cna_assigner": "redhat"
}
References

Affected packages

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

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
32778522c7d8777803c88684b8e428ee729f0b22
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.40:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.40"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

Other
binutils-2_40
gdb-10-branchpoint
gdb-11-branchpoint
gdb-12-branchpoint
gdb-13-branchpoint
gdb-4_18-branchpoint
gdb-9-branchpoint
gdb_5_2-branchpoint
gdb_5_3-branchpoint
gdb_6_0-branchpoint
gdb_6_1-branchpoint
gdb_6_2-branchpoint
gdb_6_3-branchpoint
gdb_6_4-branchpoint
gdb_6_5-branchpoint
gdb_6_6-branchpoint
gdb_6_7-branchpoint
gdb_6_8-branchpoint
gdb_7_0-branchpoint
gdb_7_1-branchpoint
gdb_7_2-branchpoint
gdb_7_3-branchpoint
gdb_7_4-branchpoint
gdb_7_5-branchpoint
gdb_7_6-branchpoint
users/ARM/embedded-binutils-master-2016q4
users/ARM/embedded-binutils-master-2017q4
users/ARM/embedded-binutils-master-2018q4
users/ARM/embedded-gdb-master-2017q4
users/ARM/embedded-gdb-master-2018q4
gdb-7.*
gdb-7.10-branchpoint
gdb-7.11-branchpoint
gdb-7.12-branchpoint
gdb-7.7-branchpoint
gdb-7.8-branchpoint
gdb-7.9-branchpoint
gdb-8.*
gdb-8.0-branchpoint
gdb-8.1-branchpoint
gdb-8.2-branchpoint
gdb-8.3-branchpoint

Database specific

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