There's a flaw in the BFD library of binutils in versions... · CVE-2021-3487 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

There's a flaw in the BFD library of binutils in versions...

High severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 27, 2023

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database

Apr 15, 2021

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022

Last updated Jan 27, 2023

Weaknesses

CWE-20

Improper Input Validation

The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. Learn more on MITRE.

CWE-400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. Learn more on MITRE.