CVE-2021-20294
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-04-29 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 17:37
Severity ?
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1943533Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-30Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26929Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Ba=patch%3Bh=372dd157272e0674d13372655cc60eaca9c06926
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1943533Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-30Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26929Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Ba=patch%3Bh=372dd157272e0674d13372655cc60eaca9c06926
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a binutils Version: binutils 2.35.2
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