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CVE-2021-3487

Public on 2021-04-15
Modified on 2024-02-29
Description

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

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.5
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Core gcc10-binutils 2021-09-08 23:35 ALAS2-2021-1702

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H