What the vulnerability does

01Description

A flaw was found in GNU Binutils 2.35.1, where there is a heap-based buffer overflow in _bfd_elf_slurp_secondary_reloc_section in elf.c due to the number of symbols not calculated correctly. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

March 26, 2021 CVE published
August 3, 2024 Record updated