PT-2021-13876

CVE-2021-20284

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Published

2020-11-22

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Updated

2024-06-15

Description by

CVSS 3.1
6.5
Medium
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: GNU Binutils version 2.35.1
Description: A flaw was found in GNU Binutils, 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 issue is to system availability.
Recommendations: For GNU Binutils version 2.35.1, consider updating to a newer version to mitigate the risk, as the current version has a heap-based buffer overflow issue. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.
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Related identifiers
ALSA-2021:4364
ALT-PU-2021-2153
CESA-2021_4364
OPENSUSE-SU-2021:1475-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2021_1475-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2021:3616-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2021_3616-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10651-1
RHSA-2021:4364
RHSA-2021_4364
RLSA-2021:4364
SUSE-SU-2021:3593-1
SUSE-SU-2021:3616-1
SUSE-SU-2022:0934-1
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