Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-3549 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in GNU Binutils 2.36

047910
CVSS 7.1 - HIGH
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
local
low complexity
gnu
CWE-787

Summary

An out of bounds flaw was found in GNU binutils objdump utility version 2.36. An attacker could use this flaw and pass a large section to avr_elf32_load_records_from_section() probably resulting in a crash or in some cases memory corruption. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to integrity as well as system availability.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Gnu
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)