CVE-2021-3549

7.1 highEPSS 1.0%

High (7.1) in gnu binutils. EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An out of bounds flaw was found in GNU binutils objdump utility version 2.36. An attacker could use this flaw and pass a large section to avr_elf32_load_records_from_section() probably resulting in a crash or in some cases memory corruption. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to integrity as well as system availability.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.1 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 62% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs: CWE-787, CWE-119
Published: 2021-05-26
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

gnu:binutils

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1960717
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-30
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1960717
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-30
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250228-0005/

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