CVE-2022-47696

Publication date 22 August 2023

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

An issue was discovered Binutils objdump before 2.39.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts via function compare_symbols.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
binutils	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2.38-4ubuntu2.2
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2.34-6ubuntu1.5
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.9
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm6
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.24-5ubuntu14.2+esm1

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Notes

seth-arnold

binutils isn't safe for untrusted inputs.

ccdm94

the fix for this issue seems to be the same as the one for the issue described by CVE-2023-25588.

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
binutils	Upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=d12f8998d2d086f0a6606589e5aedb7147e6f2f1

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H