Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils-debugsource  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-BINUTILSDEBUGSOURCE-1957056
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed22 Nov 2020

Introduced: 22 Nov 2020

CVE-2021-20284  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils-debugsource package and not the binutils-debugsource package as distributed by Centos.

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.