Microsoft security update for CVE-2021-45078
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products2
- cbl2 binutils 2.37-3 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cm1 binutils 2.36.1-2 on CBL Mariner 1.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 updates
2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 2.36.1-2 |
| — | Security Update | 2.37-3 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2021-45078
- EchelonGraph score
- 7.8 HIGH
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
stab_xcoff_builtin_type in stabs.c in GNU Binutils through 2.37 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact, as demonstrated by an out-of-bounds write. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2018-12699.
Published by MITRE Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2021-45078, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).