Updated: 2025-08-20 00:16:51.779903
Description:
An issue was discovered in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. simple_object_elf_match in simple-object-elf.c does not check for a zero shstrndx value, leading to an integer overflow and resultant heap-based buffer overflow.
| 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 | Statement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CentOS 6 ELS | binutils | 2.20 | 5.5 | MEDIUM | Not Vulnerable | 2021-12-16 10:40:05 | ||
| CloudLinux 6 ELS | binutils | 2.20 | 5.5 | MEDIUM | Not Vulnerable | 2021-12-16 10:40:06 | ||
| Oracle Linux 6 ELS | binutils | 2.20 | 5.5 | MEDIUM | Not Vulnerable | 2021-12-16 10:40:06 | ||
| Ubuntu 16.04 ELS | binutils | 2.26 | 5.5 | MEDIUM | Released | CLSA-2021:1635459139 | 2021-12-16 10:40:06 |