CVE-2021-45078

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2021-12-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

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.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 9.0, 10.0, 11.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 34, 35
GNU Binutils: through 2.37
NetApp ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility: all versions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 8.0

References

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UQBH244M5PV6S6UMHUTCVCWFZDX7Y4M6/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UUHLDDT3HH7YEY6TX7IJRGPJUTNNVEL3/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-30
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220107-0002/
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28694
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=161e87d12167b1e36193385485c1f6ce92f74f02
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UQBH244M5PV6S6UMHUTCVCWFZDX7Y4M6/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UUHLDDT3HH7YEY6TX7IJRGPJUTNNVEL3/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-30
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220107-0002/
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28694
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=161e87d12167b1e36193385485c1f6ce92f74f02

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