CVE-2020-35493

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.

CVSS breakdown

Affected products

• Broadcom / brocade_fabric_operating_system_firmware
• fedoraproject / fedora32 – 32
• gnu / binutils2.34
• NetApp / cloud_backup
• NetApp / hci_compute_node_firmware
• NetApp / ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility
• NetApp / solidfire,_enterprise_sds_&_hci_storage_node
• NetApp / solidfire_&_hci_management_node

References

• MISChttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1911437
• MAILING_LISThttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4KOK3QWSVOUJWJ54HVGIFWNLWQ5ZY4S6/
• MISChttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210212-0007/
• MISChttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-24