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Vulnerability details: VCID-fx6h-7q2k-5fd2
Vulnerability ID VCID-fx6h-7q2k-5fd2
Aliases CVE-2023-1972
Summary Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in GNU Binutils, the worst of which could result in denial of service.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 5.9
Risk 3.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
System Score Found at
cvssv3 2.5 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2023-1972.json
epss 0.00051 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-1972
epss 0.00051 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-1972
epss 0.00051 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-1972
epss 0.00051 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-1972
epss 0.00051 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-1972
epss 0.00056 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-1972
epss 0.00056 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-1972
epss 0.00056 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-1972
cvssv3.1 6.5 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185646
ssvc Track https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185646
cvssv3.1 3.3 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3.1 6.5 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-15
ssvc Track https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-15
cvssv3.1 6.5 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30285
ssvc Track https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30285
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2023-1972.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-1972
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1972
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
2185646 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185646
GLSA-202309-15 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-15
show_bug.cgi?id=30285 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30285
USN-6101-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/6101-1/
USN-6842-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/6842-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2023-1972.json
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185646
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-01-22T19:45:08Z/ Found at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185646
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-15
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-01-22T19:45:08Z/ Found at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-15
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30285
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-01-22T19:45:08Z/ Found at https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30285
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.15913
EPSS Score 0.00051
Published At April 2, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T13:01:28.795572+00:00 Gentoo Importer Import https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-15 38.0.0