CVE-2021-20294

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=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
Downstream
Related
Published
2021-04-29T16:15:09.783Z
Modified
2026-07-08T20:29:59.471804Z
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

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

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
Events
Introduced
2cb5c79dad39dd438fb0f7372ac04cf5aa2a7db7
Fixed
3bcf28ab4a7205c606e6dfde4f55548f188ad7eb
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.35"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "2.35.2"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
}

Affected versions

Other
binutils-2_35
binutils-2_35_1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-20294.json"