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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-35448: Moderate: binutils security update (ALSA-2021-4364)

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Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Dec 27, 2020
Added
May 4, 2022
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.35.1. A heap-based buffer over-read can occur in bfd_getl_signed_32 in libbfd.c because sh_entsize is not validated in _bfd_elf_slurp_secondary_reloc_section in elf.c.

Solution

alma-upgrade-binutils-devel

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