UBUNTU-CVE-2023-25588

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2023-25588

    Published: 15 Feb 2023Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2023-25588
    Aliases:
    USN-6101-1

    Summary:

    Details: A flaw was found in Binutils. The field `the_bfd` of `asymbol`struct is uninitialized in the `bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab` function, which may lead to an application crash and local denial of service.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-25588, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-25588, https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=d12f8998d2d086f0a6606589e5aedb7147e6f2f1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6101-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-25588

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: binutils

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+esm1?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.24-5ubuntu14.2+esm1

    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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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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