Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-25588 - Use of Uninitialized Resource vulnerability in GNU Binutils 2.40
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
A flaw was found in Binutils. The field `the_bfd` of `asymbol`struct is uninitialized in the `bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab` function, which may lead to an application crash and local denial of service.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2167505
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=d12f8998d2d086f0a6606589e5aedb7147e6f2f1
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-25588
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29677
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231103-0003/