{"id":"CVE-2022-48064","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2022-48064","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T21:45:08.872Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2023-08-22T19:16:31.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T05:14:35.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-770"],"affected":["gnu/binutils","fedoraproject/fedora","netapp/ontap select deploy administration utility"],"epss":{"score":0.00614,"percentile":0.49137,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.61%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3XKYUAIORNQ32IZUOZFURECZKEXOHX7Z/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KGSKF4GH7425S6XFDQMWTJGD5U47BAZN/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NSUNHSOWWLLNGHRM5TUBNCJHEYHPDX2M/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231006-0008/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29922","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=8f2c64de86bc3d7556121fe296dd679000283931","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3XKYUAIORNQ32IZUOZFURECZKEXOHX7Z/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KGSKF4GH7425S6XFDQMWTJGD5U47BAZN/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NSUNHSOWWLLNGHRM5TUBNCJHEYHPDX2M/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231006-0008/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29922","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=8f2c64de86bc3d7556121fe296dd679000283931","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-48064","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}