{"id":"CVE-2023-25588","summary":"Field `the_bfd` of `asymbol` is uninitialized in function `bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab`","details":"A flaw was found in Binutils. The field `the_bfd` of `asymbol`struct is uninitialized in the `bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab` function, which may lead to an application crash and local denial of service.","modified":"2026-08-28T11:30:27.626690099Z","published":"2023-09-14T20:47:16.974Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2023:3695-1","SUSE-SU-2023:3825-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:12816-1"],"database_specific":{"cna_assigner":"redhat","cwe_ids":["CWE-457"],"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/25xxx/CVE-2023-25588.json"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://packages.fedoraproject.org/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=d12f8998d2d086f0a6606589e5aedb7147e6f2f1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-25588"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/25xxx/CVE-2023-25588.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-25588"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231103-0003/"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2167505"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29677"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git","events":[{"introduced":"32778522c7d8777803c88684b8e428ee729f0b22"},{"last_affected":"32778522c7d8777803c88684b8e428ee729f0b22"}],"database_specific":{"cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.40:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","extracted_events":[{"introduced":"2.40"},{"last_affected":"2.40"}],"source":"CPE_STRING"}}],"versions":["2.40","binutils-2_40"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-25588.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}