CVE-2022-48064

Summary

CVE-2022-48064 is a memory consumption vulnerability affecting GNU Binutils versions prior to 2.40. The issue lies within the function bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line_with_alt in dwarf2.c. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by supplying a specially crafted ELF file, leading to excessive memory consumption. This condition may result in denial-of-service attacks, specifically DNS attacks, if successfully exploited.

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