CVE-2020-35493

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jan 4, 2021
Updated: Oct 8, 2026
Reserved: Dec 17, 2020

Description

A flaw exists in binutils in bfd/pef.c. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted PEF file to be parsed by objdump could cause a heap buffer overflow -> out-of-bounds read that could lead to an impact to application availability. This flaw affects binutils versions prior to 2.34.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

CWE-20 >CWE-122->CWE-125

Affected Products

Product	Versions
binutilsn/a	binutils 2.34Affected

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1911437
FEDORA-2020-28c78a6ac3vendor-advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210212-0007/
GLSA-202107-24vendor-advisory

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