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CVE-2022-38533In GNU Binutils before 2.40, there is a heap-buffer-overflow in the error function bfd_getl32 when called from the strip_main function in…
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.33%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 73% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In GNU Binutils before 2.40, there is a heap-buffer-overflow in the error function bfd_getl32 when called from the strip_main function in strip-new via a crafted file.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 3 days later
· 3 days later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.33% · top 73% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References9
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29482 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29482#c2 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29495 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=45d92439aebd0386ef8af76e1796d08cfe457e1d (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/bminor/binutils-gdb/commit/45d92439aebd0386ef8af76e1796d08cfe457e1d (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221104-0007/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-19538a3732 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-667ee398b1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- GLSA-202309-15 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-41112 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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