CVE-2023-25588: GNU Binutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in Binutils. The field `the_bfd` of `asymbol`struct is uninitialized in the `bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab` function, which may lead to an application crash and local denial of service.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.40 only

Published 2023-09-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.