Candidate: CVE-2021-20294
PublicDate: 2021-04-29 16:15:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-20294
Description:
 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.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 mdeslaur> introduced in:
 mdeslaur> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=0942c7ab94e554657c3e11ab85ae7f15373ee80d
Mitigation:
Bugs:
 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26929
Priority: negligible
Discovered-by: Hao Wang
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H [7.8 HIGH]


Patches_binutils:
 upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=ddb43bab174 (master)
 upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=372dd157272e0674d13372655cc60eaca9c06926 (2.35)
upstream_binutils: needs-triage
precise/esm_binutils: ignored (end of ESM support, was needs-triage)
trusty_binutils: ignored (out of standard support)
trusty/esm_binutils: not-affected (code not present)
xenial_binutils: ignored (end of standard support, was needs-triage)
esm-infra/xenial_binutils: not-affected (code not present)
bionic_binutils: not-affected (code not present)
focal_binutils: not-affected (code not present)
groovy_binutils: ignored (reached end-of-life)
hirsute_binutils: not-affected (2.36.1-6ubuntu1)
impish_binutils: not-affected (2.36.1-6ubuntu1)
jammy_binutils: not-affected (2.36.1-6ubuntu1)
devel_binutils: not-affected (2.36.1-6ubuntu1)