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VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-3530

A crafted symbol can cause stack memory to be exhausted leading to a crash.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 2.40%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.40%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

A flaw was discovered in GNU libiberty within demangle_path() in rust-demangle.c, as distributed in GNU Binutils version 2.36. A crafted symbol can cause stack memory to be exhausted leading to a crash.

CVSS 3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
2.40% probability · 83th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-674
Affected
gnu/binutils · netapp/ontap select deploy administration utility
Source
secalert@redhat.com

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.