CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-25585

Use of Uninitialized Variable

Published: Sep 14, 2023 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
4.7 LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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.

Weakness

The code uses a variable that has not been initialized, leading to unpredictable or unintended results.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Binutils Gnu 2.40 (including) 2.40 (including)
Binutils Ubuntu bionic *
Binutils Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Binutils Ubuntu focal *
Binutils Ubuntu jammy *
Binutils Ubuntu kinetic *
Binutils Ubuntu trusty *
Binutils Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Binutils Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

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