Vulnerability CVE-2022-48063
Published: 2023-08-22

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

 References:
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=75393a2d54bcc40053e5262a3de9d70c5ebfbbfd
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29924
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