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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2022-48064

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the function "* find_debug_info" at "dwarf2.c". The attacker could supply a crafted ELF file and cause a DNS attack.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published