vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2021-20284: binutils -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 26, 2021
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Aug 15, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in GNU Binutils 2.35.1, where there is a heap-based buffer overflow in _bfd_elf_slurp_secondary_reloc_section in elf.c due to the number of symbols not calculated correctly. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-binutilsno-fix-debian-deb-package
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