CVE-2021-20294

Summary

CVECVE-2021-20294
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-04-29 16:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:29:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Binutils All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
GNU Binutils: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202208-30) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
sourceware.org Git sourceware.org
[bookkeeper-issues] 20210628 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8 lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
26929 – [readelf] crash with ASAN in print_dynamic_symbol MISC sourceware.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
[bookkeeper-issues] 20210629 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8 lists.apache.org
1943533 – (CVE-2021-20294) CVE-2021-20294 binutils: stack buffer overflow WRITE may lead to a DoS via a crafted ELF MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
sourceware.org/git MISC sourceware.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 180283 Debian Security Update for binutils (CVE-2021-20294)
  • 296059 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 36.0.1.101.2 Missing (CPUJUL2021)
  • 352841 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for gcc10-binutils: ALAS2-2021-1702
  • 710599 Gentoo Linux GNU Binutils Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202208-30)
  • 751339 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for binutils (SUSE-SU-2021:3637-1)
  • 751340 OpenSUSE Security Update for binutils (openSUSE-SU-2021:3643-1)
  • 751350 OpenSUSE Security Update for binutils (openSUSE-SU-2021:1475-1)
  • 751368 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for binutils (SUSE-SU-2021:3643-1)
  • 751916 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for binutils (SUSE-SU-2022:0934-1)
  • 900099 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for binutils 2.32
  • 903191 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for binutils (4171)
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