vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2021-20294: GNU Binutils: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 29, 2021
Added
Aug 16, 2022
Modified
Aug 13, 2025

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.

Solutions

gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-devel-binutilsgentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-libs-binutils-libs
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