CVE-2023-25588
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-09-14 20:47
Modified
2024-09-25 18:22
Severity ?
4.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Field `the_bfd` of `asymbol` is uninitialized in function `bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab`
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-25588Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2167505Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231103-0003/
secalert@redhat.comhttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29677Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=d12f8998d2d086f0a6606589e5aedb7147e6f2f1Mailing List, Patch
Impacted products
n/abinutils
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 9
FedoraFedora 37
FedoraExtra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8
FedoraFedora 36
FedoraExtra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7
FedoraFedora 36
FedoraFedora
FedoraFedora 37
FedoraFedora 37
FedoraFedora 37
FedoraFedora 36
FedoraFedora 36
FedoraExtra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8
FedoraFedora 36
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