CVE-2023-1972

6.5 mediumEPSS 0.9%

Medium (6.5) in gnu binutils. EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A potential heap based buffer overflow was found in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables() in bfd/elf.c. This may lead to loss of availability.

Severity

6.5 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 59% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs: CWE-787, CWE-119
Published: 2023-05-17
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19