vulnerability
Alma Linux: CVE-2021-20284: Moderate: binutils security update (ALSA-2021-4364)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Mar 26, 2021 | May 4, 2022 | Aug 11, 2025 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 26, 2021
Added
May 4, 2022
Modified
Aug 11, 2025
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.
Solution
alma-upgrade-binutils-devel
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