CVE-2021-3530 — Uncontrolled Recursion in Binutils

CWE-674 — Uncontrolled RecursionCWE-835 — Infinite Loop7 documents6 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 42.22%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
GNU Binutils
Timeline
PublishedJun 2
Latest updateMay 24

Description

A flaw was discovered in GNU libiberty within demangle_path() in rust-demangle.c, as distributed in GNU Binutils version 2.36. A crafted symbol can cause stack memory to be exhausted leading to a crash.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶Debiangnu/binutils< 2.37.90.20220207-1+2
▶CVEListV5gnu/binutilsGNU Binutils version before and including 2.36
▶NVDgnu/binutils2.36

Patches

Patch: src.fedoraproject.org ↗Patch: src.fedoraproject.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-54mp-4694-9j92: A flaw was discovered in GNU libiberty within demangle_path() in rust-demangle↗2022-05-24
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CVEList
CVE-2021-3530: A flaw was discovered in GNU libiberty within demangle_path() in rust-demangle↗2021-06-02
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OSV
CVE-2021-3530: A flaw was discovered in GNU libiberty within demangle_path() in rust-demangle↗2021-06-02
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Red Hat
binutils: infinite loop while demangling rust symbols↗2021-06-08
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Red Hat
binutils: stack memory exhaustion in demangle_path() in rust-demangle.c↗2021-04-21
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Debian
CVE-2021-3530: binutils - A flaw was discovered in GNU libiberty within demangle_path() in rust-demangle.c...↗2021
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CVE-2021-3530 — Uncontrolled Recursion in GNU Binutils | cvebase