CVE-2021-20294

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-20294
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-20294.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-20294
Related
Published
2021-04-29T16:15:09Z
Modified
2025-04-27T03:33:17.711208Z
Downstream
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

Affected packages

Debian:11 / binutils

Package

Name
binutils
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/binutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.35.2-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:12 / binutils

Package

Name
binutils
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/binutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.35.2-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:13 / binutils

Package

Name
binutils
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/binutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.35.2-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

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

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
Events
Introduced
2cb5c79dad39dd438fb0f7372ac04cf5aa2a7db7
Fixed
3bcf28ab4a7205c606e6dfde4f55548f188ad7eb

Affected versions

Other

binutils-2_35
binutils-2_35_1