CVE-2022-48064 Information

Description

GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the function bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line_with_alt at dwarf2.c. The attacker could supply a crafted ELF file and cause a DNS attack.

Reference

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29922 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=8f2c64de86bc3d7556121fe296dd679000283931