CVE-2021-20284

Description

A flaw was found in GNU Binutils 2.35.1, where there is a heap-based buffer overflow in _bfd_elf_slurp_secondary_reloc_section in elf.c due to the number of symbols not calculated correctly. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Risk Information

Base Score
5.5
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.087

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
SUSE-SU-2021:3593-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) binutils-2.37-9.39.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2021:3593-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) binutils-debuginfo-2.37-9.39.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2021:3593-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) binutils-debugsource-2.37-9.39.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2021:3593-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) binutils-devel-2.37-9.39.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2021:3593-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) libctf-nobfd0-2.37-9.39.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2021:3593-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) libctf-nobfd0-debuginfo-2.37-9.39.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2021:3593-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) libctf0-2.37-9.39.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2021:3593-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) libctf0-debuginfo-2.37-9.39.1.x86_64.rpmLinux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234