UBUNTU-CVE-2023-1972

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2023-1972

    Published: 12 Apr 2023Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2023-1972

    Summary:

    Details: A potential heap based buffer overflow was found in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables() in bfd/elf.c. This may lead to loss of availability.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-1972, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1972, https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blobdiff;f=bfd/elf.c;h=185028cbd97ae0901c4276c8a4787b12bb75875a;hp=027d01437352555bc4ac0717cb0486c751a7775d;hb=c22d38baefc5a7a1e1f5cdc9dbb556b1f0ec5c57;hpb=f2f9bde5cde7ff34ed0a4c4682a211d402aa1086, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6101-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-1972, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6842-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: gdb

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~16.5+esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-infra/xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -7.11.1-0ubuntu1~16.5+esm1

    Affected versions

    7.10-1ubuntu2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High