Out-of-Bounds Affecting binutils package, versions <0:2.30-108.el8
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.11% (45th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS8-BINUTILS-1958778
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 22 Nov 2020
Introduced: 22 Nov 2020
CVE-2021-20284 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Centos:8
binutils
to version 0:2.30-108.el8 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils
package and not the binutils
package as distributed by Centos
.
See How to fix?
for Centos:8
relevant fixed versions and status.
A flaw was found in GNU Binutils 2.35.1, where there is a heap-based buffer overflow in _bfd_elf_slurp_secondary_reloc_section in elf.c due to the number of symbols not calculated correctly. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
References
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210521-0010/
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20284
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1937784
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26931
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4364
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-30