Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-20284
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 | |
| Application | 2 |
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1937784
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1937784
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-30
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-30
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210521-0010/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210521-0010/
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26931
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26931