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CVE-2021-3487

Published: 15/04/2021 Updated: 20/11/2023

Vulnerability Summary

It exists that GNU binutils incorrectly performed bounds checking operations when parsing stabs debugging information. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-45078)

Vulnerability Trend

Vendor Advisories

Several security issues were fixed in GNU binutils ...
An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2351 A heap-based buffer over-read can occur in bfd_getl_signed_32 in libbfdc because sh_entsize is not validated in _bfd_elf_slurp_secondary_reloc_section in elfc (CVE-2020-35448) A flaw was found in binutils' readelf program An ...
A security issue was found in the BFD library of binutils before version 236 read_section() in dwarf2c of BFD could cause excessive memory consumption when handling corrupt DWARF debug sections This could lead to an impact to system availability, denial of service, and/or a crash in applications linked with the BFD library's DWARF functionalit ...