CVE-2022-48064: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 37 only; version 38 only
• GNU Binutils: before 2.40 (fixed in 2.40)
• Netapp Ontap Select Deploy Administration Utility: affected versions not specified

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