USN-5762-1

Details

It was discovered that GNU binutils incorrectly handled certain COFF files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code.

Affected Packages

binutils

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Fixed in:

2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.8

binutils

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Fixed in:

2.34-6ubuntu1.4

binutils

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Fixed in:

2.38-4ubuntu2.1

binutils

Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS

Fixed in:

2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm5

References

REPORT

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-38533

ADVISORY

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5762-1