CVE-2021-46174 (GCVE-0-2021-46174)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-22 00:00 – Updated: 2024-10-03 17:56
VLAI
Summary
Heap-based Buffer Overflow in function bfd_getl32 in Binutils objdump 3.37.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-03 17:53 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
binutils objdump Affected: 3.37
    cpe:2.3:a:binutils:objdump:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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