VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2021-20284

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.29%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-03-26
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • secalert@redhat.com: CWE-119
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-787

Primary references