Out-of-Bounds Affecting binutils package, versions <0:2.30-108.el8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-BINUTILS-1351874
  • 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)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 binutils to version 0:2.30-108.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2021:4364.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils package and not the binutils package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL: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.

CVSS Scores

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