CVE-2022-44840: GNU Binutils

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils readelf before 2.40 via function find_section_in_set in file readelf.c.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: before 2.40 (fixed in 2.40)

Published 2023-08-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.