Security Bulletin: Publicly disclosed vulnerability in GNU binutils affects IBM Netezza Analytics

Summary

GNU binutils is used by IBM Netezza Analytics. IBM Netezza Analytics has addressed the applicable CVE by upgrading GNU binutils to latest version 2.37

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-3549
**DESCRIPTION:**GNU Binutils is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds flaw in the objdump utility. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash or a memory corruption.
CVSS Base score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/202717 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L)

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Workarounds and Mitigations

None