A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils up to 2.44. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function elf_gc_sweep of the file bfd/elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 2.45 is able to address this issue. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.
The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://vuldb.com/?id.310346 | vdb entry technical description |
| https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.310346 | signature permissions required |
| https://vuldb.com/?submit.584634 | third party advisory |
| https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32858 | issue tracking |
| https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16010 | exploit |
| https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=d1458933830456e54223d9fc61f0d9b3a19256f5 | patch |
| https://www.gnu.org/ | broken link product |