Memory Leak Affecting binutils package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.04% (10th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-BINUTILS-5861707
- published 26 Aug 2023
- disclosed 22 Aug 2023
Introduced: 22 Aug 2023
CVE-2020-21490 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:10
binutils
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils
package and not the binutils
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:10
relevant fixed versions and status.
An issue was discovered in GNU Binutils 2.34. It is a memory leak when process microblaze-dis.c. This one will consume memory on each insn disassembled.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-21490
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25249
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=378fd436405b3051df34ac995b2e03fe1f3d1907
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230929-0007/
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=378fd436405b3051df34ac995b2e03fe1f3d1907