The version of gcc10-binutils installed on the remote host is prior to 2.35-21. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2021-1702 advisory.

    2024-01-19: CVE-2021-20284 was added to this advisory.

    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. (CVE-2020-35448)

    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. (CVE-2021-20284)

    A flaw was found in binutils' readelf 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. (CVE-2021-20294)

    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. (CVE-2021-3487)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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