Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-20294 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in GNU Binutils 2.35/2.35.1

047910
CVSS 7.8 - HIGH
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
local
low complexity
gnu
CWE-787

Summary

A flaw was found in binutils readelf 2.35 program. An attacker who is able to convince a victim using readelf to read a crafted file could trigger a stack buffer overflow, out-of-bounds write of arbitrary data supplied by the attacker. The highest impact of this flaw is to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Gnu
2

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)