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Vulnerability details: VCID-qdbz-vfek-aaah
Vulnerability ID VCID-qdbz-vfek-aaah
Aliases CVE-2022-44840
Summary Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils readelf before 2.40 via function find_section_in_set in file readelf.c.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 7.0
Risk 3.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow
System Score Found at
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cvssv3.1 7.8 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3 7.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-44840
cvssv3.1 7.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-44840
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2022-44840.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-44840
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-44840
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29732
2234004 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234004
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2022-44840 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-44840
USN-6381-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/6381-1/
USN-6581-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/6581-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2022-44840.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-44840
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-44840
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.03196
EPSS Score 0.00021
Published At March 28, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
There are no relevant records.