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CVE-2022-38533

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.02 BB Relevance: 36/100
Published: 2022-08-26 Modified: 2026-11-02 First seen: 2026-11-02 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Auth

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: None
UI: Required
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: High

Description

In GNU Binutils before 2.40, there is a heap-buffer-overflow in the error function bfd_getl32 when called from the strip_main function in strip-new via a crafted file.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (4)

VendorProductVersion
fedoraproject fedora 36
fedoraproject fedora 37
gnu binutils < 2.39
n/a n/a n/a

References & Advisories (9)

Bug Bounty Relevance

36 / 100
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity

CVSS Score

5.5 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.33%
Raw Score 0.003340
Percentile 26.9%
Date 2026-11-05

EPSS Trend

2026-11-05
0.00334
2026-11-04
0.00334
2026-11-03
0.00334
2026-11-02
0.00334

Intelligence Sources

mitre ref →
nvd ref →

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