CVE-2021-3549

CVSS V2 Medium 5.8 CVSS V3 High 7.1
Description
An out of bounds flaw was found in GNU binutils objdump utility version 2.36. An attacker could use this flaw and pass a large section to avr_elf32_load_records_from_section() probably resulting in a crash or in some cases memory corruption. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to integrity as well as system availability.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2021-3549
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2021-05-26T21:15:08
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2022-10-07T20:28:00
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-787 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/787.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.36:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 5.8
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 4.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.1
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 5.2
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1960717 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-30 Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3549
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3549
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 16:13:37 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-05 03:05:09 2021-05-26T21:15Z 2021-05-26T21:15:08 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-05 03:05:09 2022-10-07T20:28:00 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-05 03:05:09 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated
2022-12-05 03:05:14 References updated