This page lists publicly disclosed CVE vulnerabilities affecting gnu binutils (linked via NVD CPE). Each row includes severity scores, summaries, and publication dates to help identify and analyze security issues.
| CVE | Summary | Source | Max CVSS | EPSS % | Published | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2021-45078 | 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. | [email protected] | 7.8 | 1.31% | 2021-12-15 | 2026-06-17 |
| CVE-2021-37322 | GCC c++filt v2.26 was discovered to contain a use-after-free vulnerability via the component cplus-dem.c. | [email protected] | 7.8 | 0.85% | 2021-11-18 | 2026-06-17 |
| CVE-2021-3530 | A flaw was discovered in GNU libiberty within demangle_path() in rust-demangle.c, as distributed in GNU Binutils version 2.36. A crafted symbol can cause stack memory to be exhausted leading to a crash. | [email protected] | 7.5 | 2.40% | 2021-06-02 | 2026-06-17 |
| CVE-2021-3549 | 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. | [email protected] | 7.1 | 0.97% | 2021-05-26 | 2026-06-17 |
| CVE-2021-20294 | A flaw was found in binutils readelf 2.35 program. An attacker who is able to convince a victim using readelf to read a crafted file could trigger a stack buffer overflow, out-of-bounds write of arbitrary data supplied by the attacker. The highest impact of this flaw is to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. | [email protected] | 7.8 | 3.41% | 2021-04-29 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2021-20284 | A flaw was found in GNU Binutils 2.35.1, where there is a heap-based buffer overflow in _bfd_elf_slurp_secondary_reloc_section in elf.c due to the number of symbols not calculated correctly. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. | [email protected] | 5.5 | 1.29% | 2021-03-26 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2021-20197 | There is an open race window when writing output in the following utilities in GNU binutils version 2.35 and earlier:ar, objcopy, strip, ranlib. When these utilities are run as a privileged user (presumably as part of a script updating binaries across different users), an unprivileged user can trick these utilities into getting ownership of arbitrary files through a symlink. | [email protected] | 6.3 | 0.31% | 2021-03-26 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2020-35507 | There's a flaw in bfd_pef_parse_function_stubs of bfd/pef.c in binutils in versions prior to 2.34 which could allow an attacker who is able to submit a crafted file to be processed by objdump to cause a NULL pointer dereference. The greatest threat of this flaw is to application availability. | [email protected] | 5.5 | 1.23% | 2021-01-04 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2020-35496 | There's a flaw in bfd_pef_scan_start_address() of bfd/pef.c in binutils which could allow an attacker who is able to submit a crafted file to be processed by objdump to cause a NULL pointer dereference. The greatest threat of this flaw is to application availability. This flaw affects binutils versions prior to 2.34. | [email protected] | 5.5 | 1.14% | 2021-01-04 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2020-35495 | There's a flaw in binutils /bfd/pef.c. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted input file to be processed by the objdump program could cause a null pointer dereference. The greatest threat from this flaw is to application availability. This flaw affects binutils versions prior to 2.34. | [email protected] | 5.5 | 1.16% | 2021-01-04 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2020-35494 | There's a flaw in binutils /opcodes/tic4x-dis.c. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted input file to be processed by binutils could cause usage of uninitialized memory. The highest threat is to application availability with a lower threat to data confidentiality. This flaw affects binutils versions prior to 2.34. | [email protected] | 6.1 | 1.07% | 2021-01-04 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2020-35493 | A flaw exists in binutils in bfd/pef.c. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted PEF file to be parsed by objdump could cause a heap buffer overflow -> out-of-bounds read that could lead to an impact to application availability. This flaw affects binutils versions prior to 2.34. | [email protected] | 5.5 | 1.13% | 2021-01-04 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2020-35448 | An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.35.1. A heap-based buffer over-read can occur in bfd_getl_signed_32 in libbfd.c because sh_entsize is not validated in _bfd_elf_slurp_secondary_reloc_section in elf.c. | [email protected] | 3.3 | 1.28% | 2020-12-26 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2020-16599 | A Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.35, in _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string, as demonstrated in nm-new, that can cause a denial of service via a crafted file. | [email protected] | 5.5 | 1.04% | 2020-12-09 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2020-16593 | A Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.35, in scan_unit_for_symbols, as demonstrated in addr2line, that can cause a denial of service via a crafted file. | [email protected] | 5.5 | 1.18% | 2020-12-09 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2020-16592 | A use after free issue exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) in GNU Binutils 2.34 in bfd_hash_lookup, as demonstrated in nm-new, that can cause a denial of service via a crafted file. | [email protected] | 5.5 | 1.05% | 2020-12-09 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2020-16591 | A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) in GNU Binutils 2.35 due to an invalid read in process_symbol_table, as demonstrated in readeif. | [email protected] | 5.5 | 0.88% | 2020-12-09 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2020-16590 | A double free vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) (aka libbrd) in GNU Binutils 2.35 in the process_symbol_table, as demonstrated in readelf, via a crafted file. | [email protected] | 5.5 | 0.94% | 2020-12-09 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2019-17451 | An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. It is an integer overflow leading to a SEGV in _bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line in dwarf2.c, as demonstrated by nm. | [email protected] | 6.5 | 2.40% | 2019-10-10 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2019-17450 | find_abstract_instance in dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and application crash) via a crafted ELF file. | [email protected] | 6.5 | 2.75% | 2019-10-10 | 2026-06-16 |