CVE-2020-21490 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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.

Published: 2023-08-22

Score: 5.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2020-14260	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.
Ubuntu USN	USN-6381-1	GNU binutils vulnerabilities

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00023.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-21490
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230929-0007/
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25249
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=378fd436405b3051df34ac995b2e03fe1f3d1907
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-21490

History

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Gnu Binutils

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-08-22T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-10-04T16:16:46.000Z

Reserved: 2020-08-13T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-21490

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T14:30:33.227Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-08-22T19:16:13.720

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:12:37.033

Link: CVE-2020-21490

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2019-12-04T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-21490 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-401

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