Alma Linux: CVE-2021-20284: Moderate: binutils security update (ALSA-2021-4364)
4
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
03/26/2021
05/05/2022
05/04/2022
09/15/2022
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(s)
- alma-upgrade-binutils-devel
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