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GCVE-VVD-MAGEIA-2021-341
GCVE-VVD-MAGEIA-2021-341
Advisory Published
This update provides binutils 2.36.1 and fixes at least the following security
issues:
There's a flaw in the BFD library of binutils in versions before 2.36. An
attacker who supplies a crafted file to an application linked with BFD, and
using the DWARF functionality, could cause an impact to system availability
by way of excessive memory consumption (CVE-2021-3487).
There is an open race window when writing output in the following utilities
in GNU binutils version 2.35 and earlier:ar, objcopy, strip, ranlib. When
these utilities are run as a privileged user (presumably as part of a script
updating binaries across different users), an unprivileged user can trick
these utilities into getting ownership of arbitrary files through a symlink
(CVE-2021-20197).
For more info about the 2.36 update, see the sourceware link.
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Platforms |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mageia | binutils | 0 (affected), 2.36.1-1.1.mga8 (unaffected) | — |
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