CVE-2021-3549 - An out of bounds flaw was found in GNU binutils objdump utility version 2.36. An attacker could use

CVE-2021-3549

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.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1960717
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-30

Vulnerable Configurations

cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS

Base:	5.8 (as of 07-10-2022 - 20:28)
Impact:
Exploitability:

CWE

CWE-787

CAPEC

Access

Vector	Complexity	Authentication
NETWORK	MEDIUM	NONE

Impact

Confidentiality	Integrity	Availability
NONE	PARTIAL	PARTIAL

cvss-vector via4

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Last major update

07-10-2022 - 20:28

Published

26-05-2021 - 21:15

Last modified

07-10-2022 - 20:28