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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2021-20284 (11.4 SRU 36.101.2)

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2021-20284 (11.4 SRU 36.101.2)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/26/2021
Created
08/28/2021
Added
08/27/2021
Modified
02/17/2022

Description

A flaw was found in GNU Binutils 2.35.1, where there is a heap-based buffer overflow in _bfd_elf_slurp_secondary_reloc_section in elf.c due to the number of symbols not calculated correctly. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-developer-gnu-binutils-2-36-1-11-4-36-0-1-101-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-developer-gnu-binutils-cross-i386-2-36-1-11-4-36-0-1-101-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-developer-gnu-binutils-cross-sparc-2-36-1-11-4-36-0-1-101-0

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