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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2020-35493: binutils security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2020-35493: binutils security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/04/2021
Created
02/02/2021
Added
02/02/2021
Modified
02/02/2021

Description

A flaw exists in binutils in bfd/pef.c. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted PEF file to be parsed by objdump could cause a heap buffer overflow -> out-of-bounds read that could lead to an impact to application availability. This flaw affects binutils versions prior to 2.34.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-binutils
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-binutils-devel

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