PT-2023-20184 · Gnu+5 · Binutils+5

Pedro Sampaio · Published 2022-10-13 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2023-25588

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Binutils (affected versions not specified)

Description A flaw was found in Binutils, where the field the bfd of asymbol struct is uninitialized in the bfd mach o get synthetic symtab function. This may lead to an application crash and local denial of service.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Use of Uninitialized Resource

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-457

CWE-908

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2023-5880

BDU:2025-03957

CVE-2023-25588

OPENSUSE-SU-2023_3825-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12816-1

SUSE-SU-2023:3695-1

SUSE-SU-2023:3825-1

USN-6101-1

Affected Products

Astra Linux

Binutils

Debian

Linuxmint

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 163

• 🔥 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29677 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2167505 · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-25585 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-6101-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-25588 · Vendor Advisory
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=d12f8998d2d086f0a6606589e5aedb7147e6f2f1 · Patch
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2025-03966 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1972 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-25588 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-25588 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1579 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-25585 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/binutils · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2023-06832 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2023-25588 · Vendor Advisory