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binutils — security advisory
An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-16599.
- Products
- binutils
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.39.50.20221208-2
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-4285
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 15:02 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-16599.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2022-4285
binutils
Fixed versions: 2.39.50.20221208-2
binutils
Fixed versions: 2.39.50.20221208-2
binutils
Fixed versions: 2.39.50.20221208-2
Complete source record
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