Vulnerability · Published Aug 25, 2022 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2022-38533

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the binutils package (Alpine). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 27% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 73.1% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In GNU Binutils before 2.40, there is a heap-buffer-overflow in the error function bfd_getl32 when called from the strip_main function in strip-new via a crafted file.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
Alpine:v3.20	binutils	2.39-r2	ALPINE-CVE-2022-38533
Alpine:v3.21	binutils	2.39-r2	ALPINE-CVE-2022-38533
Alpine:v3.22	binutils	2.39-r2	ALPINE-CVE-2022-38533
Alpine:v3.23	binutils	2.39-r2	ALPINE-CVE-2022-38533
Alpine:v3.24	binutils	2.39-r2	ALPINE-CVE-2022-38533
Debian:12	binutils	2.39.50.20221208-2	DEBIAN-CVE-2022-38533
Debian:13	binutils	2.39.50.20221208-2	DEBIAN-CVE-2022-38533
Debian:14	binutils	2.39.50.20221208-2	DEBIAN-CVE-2022-38533
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS	binutils	2.38-4ubuntu2.1	UBUNTU-CVE-2022-38533
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS	binutils	2.38-4ubuntu2.4	USN-6544-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS	binutils	2.38-4ubuntu2.1	USN-5762-1

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

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Official description

Affected packages & fixed versions

Affected products (as reported)

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