vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-20294: Out-of-bounds Write
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Apr 29, 2021 | Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 22, 2024 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 29, 2021
Added
Mar 21, 2024
Modified
Mar 22, 2024
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.
Solution
alpine-linux-upgrade-binutils
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