7.5

CVE-2021-3530: gnu binutils Uncontrolled Recursion

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2021-3530DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3530
Published 02-06-2021Last modified 03-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2021-3530 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in gnu binutils. EPSS estimates a 2.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
2.40%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Duplicates 1 · Related 2
SUSE-SU-2022:4146-1SUSE-SU-2022:4277-1CVE-2021-3648

Timeline

  1. 02-06-2021
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 03-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

2.40%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

84%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 2.40% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
2.40%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Ubuntu2 products
  • gdb< 12.1-0ubuntu1~22.04
  • libibertyAll versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • binutils< 2.37.90.20220207-1
Gnu1 product
Netapp1 product

4 vendors · 5 products

References

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