CVE-2022-48064

Name	CVE-2022-48064
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
binutils (PTS)	bookworm	2.40-2	fixed
	trixie	2.44-3	fixed
	forky	2.47-2	fixed
	sid	2.47-4	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
binutils	source	(unstable)	2.40-2	unimportant

Notes

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29922
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=8f2c64de86bc3d7556121fe296dd679000283931 (binutils-2_40)
binutils not covered by security support