SB2023121216 - Denial of service in Binutils objdump
Published: December 12, 2023
Security Bulletin ID
SB2023121216
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-46174)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the bfd_getl32() function in objdump. A remote attacker can trick the victim to pass specially crfated input to the application, trigger an out-of-bounds write error and perform a denial of service attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.