Bug 2167505 (CVE-2023-25588) - CVE-2023-25588 binutils: Field `the_bfd` of `asymbol` is uninitialized in function `bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab`
Summary: CVE-2023-25588 binutils: Field `the_bfd` of `asymbol` is uninitialized in fun...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-25588
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2174193 2174194 2174195 2174196 2174197 2174198 2174199 2174200 2174201 2174202 2174203
Blocks: 2160830
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Reported: 2023-02-06 20:13 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2025-02-04 18:27 UTC (History)
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2023-02-06 20:13:49 UTC 
In Binutils, the field `the_bfd` of `asymbol` is uninitialized in function `bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab`.

Upstream bug:

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

Upstream fix:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=d12f8998d2d086f0a6606589e5aedb7147e6f2f1
Comment 1 Nick Clifton 2023-02-07 12:39:34 UTC 
This bug only affects binutils versions that have been configured to support the Mach-O file format.  This is not the case on binutils builds for Fedora or RHEL-9 and only affects the binutils builds for the s390x target on RHEL 8/7/6.  See BZ 2167467 for more details on why bugs in Mach-O support is restricted to these releases.
Comment 5 Siddhesh Poyarekar 2023-03-01 17:35:29 UTC 
This does not affect gdb in RHEL or Fedora; gdb does not have or build the affected code.
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