vulnerability
Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2021-20197: binutils security update
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N) | Mar 26, 2021 | Jul 2, 2021 | Apr 1, 2026 |
Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Mar 26, 2021
Added
Jul 2, 2021
Modified
Apr 1, 2026
Description
There is an open race window when writing output in the following utilities in GNU binutils version 2.35 and earlier:ar, objcopy, strip, ranlib. When these utilities are run as a privileged user (presumably as part of a script updating binaries across different users), an unprivileged user can trick these utilities into getting ownership of arbitrary files through a symlink.
Solution
huawei-euleros-2_0_sp9-upgrade-binutils
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