AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
25.3%
There’s a flaw in the BFD library of binutils. An attacker who supplies a crafted file to an application linked with BFD, and using the DWARF functionality, could cause an impact to system availability by way of excessive memory consumption.
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1947111
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3487
www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3487