CVE-2020-21490

Publication date 22 August 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

An issue was discovered in GNU Binutils 2.34. It is a memory leak when process microblaze-dis.c. This one will consume memory on each insn disassembled.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
binutils	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.9+esm1 Ubuntu Pro
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm7 Ubuntu Pro
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.24-5ubuntu14.2+esm3 Ubuntu Pro

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Notes

seth-arnold

binutils isn’t safe for untrusted inputs.

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
binutils	Upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=378fd436405b3051df34ac995b2e03fe1f3d1907

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-6381-1
GNU binutils vulnerabilities
18 September 2023