5.5

CVE-2022-4285: fedoraproject fedora NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumModified
AliasesRHSA-2023:2873RHSA-2023:6236RHSA-2023:6593
Published 27-01-2023Last modified 28-03-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-4285 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in fedoraproject fedora. EPSS estimates a 0.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 36.8% of scored vulnerabilities. 2 public exploits are recorded.

Overall risk
32/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.44%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits2reference

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 6 · Related 4
MGASA-2024-0246RHSA-2023:3269SUSE-SU-2023:3695-1SUSE-SU-2023:3825-1USN-6544-1USN-6842-1

Timeline

  1. 27-01-2023
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 28-03-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-16599.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.44%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

37%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.44% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
0.44%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

2 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (sourceware.org)

    Maturity: unknown

  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (bugzilla.redhat.com)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Redhat15 products
  • enterprise_linuxEOL6.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 9.0
  • binutils< 0:2.30-119.el8_8.2 | < 0:2.35.2-42.el9 | < 0:2.30-113.el8_6.2
  • binutils-debuginfo< 0:2.30-119.el8_8.2 | < 0:2.35.2-42.el9 | < 0:2.30-113.el8_6.2
  • binutils-debugsource< 0:2.30-119.el8_8.2 | < 0:2.35.2-42.el9 | < 0:2.30-113.el8_6.2
  • binutils-devel< 0:2.30-119.el8_8.2 | < 0:2.35.2-42.el9 | < 0:2.30-113.el8_6.2
Ubuntu3 products
  • binutils< 2.38-4ubuntu2.4
  • binutils-avrAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • gdb< 7.11.1-0ubuntu1~16.5+esm1 | < 8.1.1-0ubuntu1+esm1 | < 9.2-0ubuntu1~20.04.2 | < 12.1-0ubuntu1~22.04.2
Debian1 product
  • binutils< 2.39.50.20221208-2
Fedoraproject1 product
Gnu1 product
Opensuse1 product
  • binutils&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 2.40-1.1

6 vendors · 22 products

References

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