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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-47696: Vulnerability in Binutils

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-47696: Vulnerability in Binutils

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
08/22/2023
Created
03/22/2024
Added
03/21/2024
Modified
03/22/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-binutils

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