CVE-2021-3549: An out of bounds flaw was found in GNU binutils objdump utility version 2.36. An attacker could use this flaw and pass a large section to…

PriorityP428high7.1CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRNUIRSUCNIHAH

EPSS

0.97%

58.4th percentile

An out of bounds flaw was found in GNU binutils objdump utility version 2.36. An attacker could use this flaw and pass a large section to avr_elf32_load_records_from_section() probably resulting in a crash or in some cases memory corruption. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to integrity as well as system availability.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	binutils	< binutils 2.37-3 (bookworm)	binutils 2.37-3 (bookworm)
gnu	binutils	—	—
gnu	binutils	—	—
gnu	binutils	>= 0 < 2.37-3	2.37-3
gnu	binutils	>= 0 < 2.37-3	2.37-3
gnu	binutils	>= 0 < 2.37-3	2.37-3

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.1HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.05.8MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

osv7.1HIGH

vendor_debian7.1LOW

vendor_redhat7.1HIGH

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