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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-35448: Binutils: Multiple vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) | Dec 27, 2020 | Jul 12, 2021 | Aug 13, 2025 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Dec 27, 2020
Added
Jul 12, 2021
Modified
Aug 13, 2025
Description
An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.35.1. A heap-based buffer over-read can occur in bfd_getl_signed_32 in libbfd.c because sh_entsize is not validated in _bfd_elf_slurp_secondary_reloc_section in elf.c.
Solution
gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-devel-binutils
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