Security advisory

{
  "id": "b8ca11d7216443d964a2248420865051583a94b7e9ccfe324914a15ffa9c6392",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-3549",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2021-3549",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-3549",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2021-3549",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2021-3549"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "9288e0fae61b716ce75334be906283de8b18b787"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "9288e0fae61b716ce75334be906283de8b18b787"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.36"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.36"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "2.36",
            "binutils-2_36"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-3549.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:56.473739864Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-30",
        "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250228-0005/",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1960717"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2021-3549",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 438681,
  "published_at": "2021-05-26T21:15:08.347+00:00"
}