CVE-2021-20294HighCVSS 7.8

A flaw was found in binutils readelf 2.35 program. An attacker who is able to convince a victim using readelf to read a crafted file could trigger a stack buffer overflow out-of-bounds write of arbitrary data supplied by the attacker. The highest impact of this flaw is to confidentiality integrity and availability.

Published
May 10, 2021
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Is Azure Linux the only Microsoft product that includes this open-source library and is therefore potentially affected by this vulnerability? One of the main benefits to our customers who choose to use the Azure Linux distro is the commitment to keep it up to date with the most recent and most secure versions of the open source libraries with which the distro is composed. Microsoft is committed to transparency in this work which is why we began publishing CSAF/VEX in October 2025. See this blog post for more information. If impact to additional products is identified, we will update the CVE to reflect this.

🎯 Affected products1

  • cm1 binutils 2.36.1-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0

✅ Remediation

KBCBL-Mariner Releases (Security Update) — fixed build 2.36.1-1

🔗 References (2)