UBUNTU-CVE-2022-44840

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2022-44840

    Published: 22 Aug 2023Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2022-44840

    Summary:

    Details: Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils readelf before 2.40 via function find_section_in_set in file readelf.c.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-44840, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6381-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6581-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-44840

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: binutils

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+esm3?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.24-5ubuntu14.2+esm3

    Affected versions

    2.23.52.20130913-0ubuntu1
    2.23.90.20131017-1ubuntu1
    2.23.90.20131116-1ubuntu1
    2.23.91.20131123-1ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Integrity
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