CVE-2020-35342

Publication date 22 August 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

GNU Binutils before 2.34 has an uninitialized-heap vulnerability in function tic4x_print_cond (file opcodes/tic4x-dis.c) which could allow attackers to make an information leak.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
binutils	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.9+esm1 Ubuntu Pro
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm7 Ubuntu Pro
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.24-5ubuntu14.2+esm3 Ubuntu Pro

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Notes

seth-arnold

binutils isn't safe for untrusted inputs.

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
binutils	Upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=8c5e259235a4e4546910245b170de1e29a711034 Upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=2c5b6e1a1c406cbe06e2d6f77861764ebd01b9ce

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-6381-1
GNU binutils vulnerabilities
18 September 2023