CVE-2021-20284

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-20284
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-20284.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-20284
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Published
2021-03-26T17:15:13.063Z
Modified
2026-07-09T00:22:15.298583Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

References

Affected packages

Git / sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
Events
Introduced
7e46a74aa3713c563940960e361e08defda019c2
Last affected
7e46a74aa3713c563940960e361e08defda019c2
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.35.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.35.1"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.35.1"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.35.1
Other
binutils-2_35_1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-20284.json"