Out-of-bounds write in Binutils - CVE-2021-46174

Vulnerability identifier: #VU84095

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2021-46174

CWE-ID: CWE-787

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

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.

Binutils
Ubuntu
openEuler
binutils (Ubuntu package)
binutils-multiarch (Ubuntu package)
binutils
binutils-help
binutils-debugsource
binutils-devel
binutils-debuginfo
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data
IBM Sterling Order Management

Install updates from vendor's website.

Binutils - update to 2.38
binutils (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2.34-6ubuntu1.7, 2.38-4ubuntu2.4
binutils-multiarch (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2.34-6ubuntu1.7, 2.38-4ubuntu2.4
binutils - update to 2.34-26
binutils-help - update to 2.34-26
binutils-debugsource - update to 2.34-26
binutils-devel - update to 2.34-26
binutils-debuginfo - update to 2.34-26
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data - update to 4.8.5
IBM Sterling Order Management - update to 10.0.2403.1

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

• Denial of service in Binutils objdump
• Ubuntu update for binutils
• openEuler update for binutils
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Sterling Order Management
• Out-of-bounds write in IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data
• Ubuntu update for binutils