Out-of-Bounds Affecting binutils package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-BINUTILS-2321760
  • published18 Dec 2021
  • disclosed14 Dec 2021

Introduced: 14 Dec 2021

CVE-2021-45078  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 binutils.

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.

stab_xcoff_builtin_type in stabs.c in GNU Binutils through 2.37 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact, as demonstrated by an out-of-bounds write. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2018-12699.

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