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Vulnerability IntelligenceUBUNTU-CVE-2021-46174

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-46174

HIGH7.5

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in function bfd_getl32 in Binutils objdump 3.37.

Published Aug 22, 2023

Modified 6 months ago

Fix available

Details

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in function bfd_getl32 in Binutils objdump 3.37.

Affected Packages

binutils

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Fixed in:

2.34-6ubuntu1.7

binutils

Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS

Fixed in:

2.24-5ubuntu14.2+esm3

binutils

Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS

Fixed in:

2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm7

binutils

Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS

Fixed in:

2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.9+esm1

References

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28753

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=cad4d6b91e97b6962807d33c04ed7e7797788438

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-46174

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6381-1

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6544-1

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-46174

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v3.1

Exploitability

Attack Vector

NetworkAV:N

Attack Complexity

LowAC:L

Privileges Required

NonePR:N

User Interaction

NoneUI:N

Scope

Scope

UnchangedS:U

Impact

Confidentiality

NoneC:N

Integrity

NoneI:N

Availability

HighA:H

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Upstream

Related

USN-6381-1 USN-6544-1

Ecosystems

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS

Timeline

PublishedAug 22, 2023

ModifiedSep 8, 2025

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