CVE-2023-1972

binutils

MEDIUM 6.5

At a glance

Source: NVD
EPSS: EPSS 0.90 % · percentile 59 (2026-10-28)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2023-05-17 00:00 UTC
Updated: 2025-01-22 19:45 UTC
Assigner: redhat
NVD status: Modified

Description

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2023-24156
GCVE · GCVE-0-2023-1972

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2026-AVI-0218 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2025-AVI-0693 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans VMware Tanzu · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2025-AVI-0337 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 2.35 ≤ 2.40

Affected products

Product	Versions
binutils	affected affected at least binutils 2.40

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD