Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-21490 - Memory Leak vulnerability in GNU Binutils

CVSS 5.5 - MEDIUM

Attack vector

LOCAL

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

NONE

Integrity impact

NONE

Availability impact

HIGH

local

low complexity

gnu

CWE-401

NVD

Published: 2023-08-22

Updated: 2023-11-07

Summary

An issue was discovered in GNU Binutils 2.34. It is a memory leak when process microblaze-dis.c. This one will consume memory on each insn disassembled.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Gnu GNU Binutils - GNU Binutils 2.6 GNU Binutils 2.7 GNU Binutils 2.8 GNU Binutils 2.8.1 GNU Binutils 2.9 GNU Binutils 2.9.1 GNU Binutils 2.10 GNU Binutils 2.10.1 GNU Binutils 2.10.1A GNU Binutils 2.11 GNU Binutils 2.11.1 GNU Binutils 2.11.2 GNU Binutils 2.11.2A GNU Binutils 2.12 GNU Binutils 2.12.1 GNU Binutils 2.12.1A GNU Binutils 2.13 GNU Binutils 2.13.1 GNU Binutils 2.13.2 GNU Binutils 2.13.2.1 GNU Binutils 2.13.2.1A GNU Binutils 2.14 GNU Binutils 2.14A GNU Binutils 2.15 GNU Binutils 2.15A GNU Binutils 2.16.1 GNU Binutils 2.16.1A GNU Binutils 2.17 GNU Binutils 2.17A GNU Binutils 2.18 GNU Binutils 2.18A GNU Binutils 2.19 GNU Binutils 2.19.1 GNU Binutils 2.19.1A GNU Binutils 2.20 GNU Binutils 2.20.1 GNU Binutils 2.20.1A GNU Binutils 2.21.1 GNU Binutils 2.21.1A GNU Binutils 2.22 GNU Binutils 2.23 GNU Binutils 2.23.1 GNU Binutils 2.23.2 GNU Binutils 2.24 GNU Binutils 2.25 GNU Binutils 2.25.1 GNU Binutils 2.26 GNU Binutils 2.26.1 GNU Binutils 2.27 GNU Binutils 2.28 GNU Binutils 2.28.1 GNU Binutils 2.29 GNU Binutils 2.29.1 GNU Binutils 2.29.1.1 GNU Binutils 2.30 GNU Binutils 2.31 GNU Binutils 2.31.1 GNU Binutils 2.32 GNU Binutils 2.33 GNU Binutils 2.33.1	61

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-401 - Improper Release of Memory Before Removing Last Reference ('Memory Leak')

Summary

Vulnerable Configurations

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

References