Bug 2234027 (CVE-2022-47695)

Summary:	CVE-2022-47695 binutils: uninitialized field in bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab() in match-o.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	acrosby, ailan, bdettelb, caswilli, desktop-qa-list, fjansen, fweimer, gdb-bugs, hkataria, jburrell, jmitchel, jsamir, jsherril, jtanner, kaycoth, keiths, kshier, mcermak, mpolacek, mprchlik, nickc, ohudlick, psegedy, rjones, sipoyare, sthirugn, tsasak, virt-maint, vkrizan
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2023-11-09 09:18:58 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2234031, 2234032, 2234033, 2234300, 2234301, 2234302, 2234303, 2234304, 2234305, 2234306, 2234307, 2234308, 2234309, 2234310, 2234311, 2234312, 2234313, 2234314
Bug Blocks:	2233947

Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2023-08-23 22:16:26 UTC

An issue was discovered Binutils objdump before 2.39.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts via function bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab in match-o.c.

Reference:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29677

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2023-08-23 22:28:36 UTC

According to the description of this CVE in Mitre[1], the reference of this issue is this bug[2], however this bug seems related to CVE-2022-47696[3].

[1]. https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-47695
[2]. https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29846
[3]. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234029

Comment 2 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2023-08-23 22:30:59 UTC

Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2234031]


Created gdb tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2234032]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2234033]

Comment 5 Nick Clifton 2023-08-24 13:05:11 UTC

(In reply to Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz from comment #0)
> An issue was discovered Binutils objdump before 2.39.3 allows attackers to
> cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts via function
> bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab in match-o.c.

The SECURITY.txt file found in the upstream GNU Binutils sources makes it clear that bug in inspection tools like objdump are not considered to be security issues, and hence do not qualify for CVE treatment.