CVE-2021-3487

Name	CVE-2021-3487
Description	There's a flaw in the BFD library of binutils in versions before 2.36. An attacker who supplies a crafted file to an application linked with BFD, and using the DWARF functionality, could cause an impact to system availability by way of excessive memory consumption.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
binutils (PTS)	buster	2.31.1-16	vulnerable
	bullseye	2.35.2-2	vulnerable
	bookworm, sid	2.40-2	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
binutils	source	(unstable)	2.37-3	unimportant

Notes

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26946
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=647cebce12a6b0a26960220caff96ff38978cf24
binutils not covered by security support