CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-20294

7.8 HIGH Published 2021-04-29 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-04-29
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-787

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• gnu binutils (>= 2.35 < 2.35.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References