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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2022-48064: Security patch for binutils (ALAS-2024-2401)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2022-48064: Security patch for binutils (ALAS-2024-2401)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/22/2023
Created
01/11/2024
Added
01/10/2024
Modified
01/10/2024

Description

GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the function bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line_with_alt at dwarf2.c. The attacker could supply a crafted ELF file and cause a DNS attack.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-binutils
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-binutils-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-binutils-devel

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