cve/2023/CVE-2023-25588.md

### [CVE-2023-25588](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-25588)
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### Description

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.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29677

#### Github
- https://github.com/fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds