🛡️ CVE-2022-44840
🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-787 NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils readelf before 2.40 via function find_section_in_set in file readelf.c.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-787
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2023-08-22
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
binutils 2.40

References

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29732
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29732

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