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CVE-2021-20294

Date: April 28, 2021

A flaw was found in binutils readelf 2.35 program. An attacker who is able to convince a victim using readelf to read a crafted file could trigger a stack buffer overflow, out-of-bounds write of arbitrary data supplied by the attacker. The highest impact of this flaw is to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (16)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1943533
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-20294
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=patch;h=372dd157272e0674d13372655cc60eaca9c06926
https://github.com/bminor/binutils-gdb/commit/ddb43bab174c50656331e5460b18bd8e8be5f522
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-20294
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Ba=patch%3Bh=372dd157272e0674d13372655cc60eaca9c06926
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-20294
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20294
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26929
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2021-20294
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-30
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-20294

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CWE-119

Out-of-bounds Write

CWE-787

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): REQUIRED
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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