Medium severity · published Sep 14, 2023
CVE-2023-25585
A flaw was found in Binutils
5.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was found in Binutils. The use of an uninitialized field in the struct module *module may lead to application crash and local denial of service.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 32% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BI
Binutils · Gnu
2.40 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-25585
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-25585
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-25585
Exploit
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2167498
security.netapp.com
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231103-0003/
Exploit
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29892
Mailing List
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=65cf035b8dc1df5d8020e0b1449514a3c42933e7
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