What is CVE-2022-47696?

CVE-2022-47696 is a high-severity vulnerability in Gnu Binutils, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2023-08-22.

How severe is CVE-2022-47696?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Gnu Binutils

CVE-2022-47696

An issue was discovered Binutils objdump before 2.39.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts via function compare_symbols.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.004 (32.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Gnu Binutils
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-47696?: CVE-2022-47696 is a high-severity vulnerability in Gnu Binutils, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2023-08-22.
How severe is CVE-2022-47696?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.