CVE-2022-38533: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In GNU Binutils before 2.40, there is a heap-buffer-overflow in the error function bfd_getl32 when called from the strip_main function in strip-new via a crafted file.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 36 only; version 37 only
• GNU Binutils: up to and including 2.39

Published 2022-08-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.