CVE-2021-20294
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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VIR risk
5.5
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20294.html
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-20294
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 2.35.2-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 2.35.2-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 2.35.2-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 2.35.2-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 2.35.2-1 |
| arch | fixed | 2.36-1 | |
| sles | affected | |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.