CVE-2023-1972: GNU Binutils

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A potential heap based buffer overflow was found in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables() in bfd/elf.c. This may lead to loss of availability.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: from 2.35, up to and including 2.40

Published 2023-05-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.