CVE-2023-1579 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Heap based buffer overflow in binutils-gdb/bfd/libbfd.c in bfd_getl64.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Gnu	Binutils
Redhat	Enterprise Linux

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.39:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Package	CPE	Advisory	Released Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
mingw-binutils-0:2.41-3.el9	cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9	RHSA-2024:2353	2024-04-30T00:00:00Z

References

Link	Providers
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1579
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-15
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230511-0009/
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29988
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=11d171f1910b508a81d21faa087ad1af573407d8
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-1579

History

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2023-04-03T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-02-13T14:56:49.974Z

Reserved: 2023-03-22T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-1579

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T05:57:23.980Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-04-03T23:15:07.043

Modified: 2025-02-13T15:15:12.980

Link: CVE-2023-1579

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2023-01-11T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-1579 - Bugzilla

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