FreeBSD: VID-F4C54B81-BCC8-11EB-A7A6-080027F515EA (CVE-2021-3487): binutils -- excessive debug section size can cause excessive memory consumption in bfd's dwarf2.c read_section()
7
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
11/25/2020
11/08/2022
11/04/2022
11/04/2022
Description
There's a flaw in the BFD library of binutils in versions before 2.36. An attacker who supplies a crafted file to an application linked with BFD, and using the DWARF functionality, could cause an impact to system availability by way of excessive memory consumption.
Solution(s)
- freebsd-upgrade-package-binutils
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