Updated: 2022-05-25 08:14:00.33694
Description:
The _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols function in syms.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, has a memory leak via a crafted ELF file, leading to a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by nm.
| Links | NIST | CIRCL | RHEL | Ubuntu |
| Severity | Score | |
|---|---|---|
| CVSS Version 2.x | MEDIUM | 4.3 |
| CVSS Version 3.x | MEDIUM | 5.5 |
| OS name | Project name | Version | Score | Severity | Status | Errata | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CentOS 6 ELS | binutils | 2.20 | 5.5 | MEDIUM | Released | CLSA-2021:1640621287 | 2022-05-05 12:03:36 |
| CloudLinux 6 ELS | binutils | 2.20 | 5.5 | MEDIUM | Released | CLSA-2021:1639670535 | 2021-12-27 14:17:54 |
| Oracle Linux 6 ELS | binutils | 2.20 | 5.5 | MEDIUM | Released | CLSA-2021:1639670584 | 2021-12-16 15:55:46 |
| Ubuntu 16.04 ELS | binutils | 2.26 | 5.5 | MEDIUM | Released | CLSA-2021:1635459139 | 2021-12-16 10:40:03 |