Out-of-bounds Write Affecting binutils package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.14% (49th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-BINUTILS-2321369
- published 17 Dec 2021
- disclosed 15 Dec 2021
Introduced: 15 Dec 2021
CVE-2021-45078 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:11
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:11
relevant fixed versions and status.
stab_xcoff_builtin_type in stabs.c in GNU Binutils through 2.37 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact, as demonstrated by an out-of-bounds write. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2018-12699.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-45078
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28694
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=161e87d12167b1e36193385485c1f6ce92f74f02
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UQBH244M5PV6S6UMHUTCVCWFZDX7Y4M6/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UUHLDDT3HH7YEY6TX7IJRGPJUTNNVEL3/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220107-0002/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-30
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UQBH244M5PV6S6UMHUTCVCWFZDX7Y4M6/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UUHLDDT3HH7YEY6TX7IJRGPJUTNNVEL3/
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=161e87d12167b1e36193385485c1f6ce92f74f02