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CVE-2023-25585

Publication date 15 February 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

A flaw was found in Binutils. The use of an uninitialized field in the struct module *module may lead to application crash and local denial of service.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
binutils 23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Fixed 2.39-3ubuntu1.2
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
14.04 LTS trusty

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Notes

seth-arnold

binutils isn't safe for untrusted inputs.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H