binutils: Fix of 9 CVEs
- CVE-2017-16831: Fix excessive memory allocation attempts and possible integer overflows when attempting to read a COFF binary with a corrupt symbol count - CVE-2020-19726: Fix parsing a corrupt PE format file - CVE-2021-45078: Fix out-of-bounds write in stab_xcoff_builtin_type - CVE-2021-46174: Fix buffer overflow in read_section_stabs_debugging_info - CVE-2022-44840: Fix possible heap buffer overflow in find_section_in_set() in readelf.c - CVE-2022-45703: Combine sanity checks, calculate element counts, not word counts, fix typo - CVE-2022-47695: Test symbol flags to exclude section and synthetic symbols before attempting to check flavour - CVE-2022-47696: Fix uninitialised field `the_bfd` of `asymbol` - CVE-2022-47673: Fix lack of bounds checking in vms-alpha.c
- Products
- binutils, binutils-devel
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.27-44.base.el7_9.1.tuxcare.els1
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-16831, CVE-2020-19726, CVE-2021-45078, CVE-2021-46174, CVE-2022-44840, CVE-2022-45703, CVE-2022-47673, CVE-2022-47695, CVE-2022-47696
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 13:54 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
- CVE-2017-16831: Fix excessive memory allocation attempts and possible integer overflows when attempting to read a COFF binary with a corrupt symbol count - CVE-2020-19726: Fix parsing a corrupt PE format file - CVE-2021-45078: Fix out-of-bounds write in stab_xcoff_builtin_type - CVE-2021-46174: Fix buffer overflow in read_section_stabs_debugging_info - CVE-2022-44840: Fix possible heap buffer overflow in find_section_in_set() in readelf.c - CVE-2022-45703: Combine sanity checks, calculate element counts, not word counts, fix typo - CVE-2022-47695: Test symbol flags to exclude section and synthetic symbols before attempting to check flavour - CVE-2022-47696: Fix uninitialised field `the_bfd` of `asymbol` - CVE-2022-47673: Fix lack of bounds checking in vms-alpha.c
osv:CLSA-2023-1696877581
binutils
Fixed versions: 2.27-44.base.el7_9.1.tuxcare.els1
binutils-devel
Fixed versions: 2.27-44.base.el7_9.1.tuxcare.els1
Complete source record
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