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Date:      Wed, 18 Aug 2021 06:16:43 GMT
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Fernando Apestegu=C3=ADa?= <fernape@FreeBSD.org>
To:        ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-ports-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-ports-main@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   git: 2a99b5e68473 - main - security/vuxml: Excessive memory consumption vulnerability in binutils
Message-ID:  <202108180616.17I6Gh66097095@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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The branch main has been updated by fernape:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=2a99b5e684733568e6e532c434c0b43767168d3e

commit 2a99b5e684733568e6e532c434c0b43767168d3e
Author:     Yasuhiro Kimura <yasu@utahime.org>
AuthorDate: 2021-08-18 06:05:28 +0000
Commit:     Fernando ApesteguĂ­a <fernape@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2021-08-18 06:10:16 +0000

    security/vuxml: Excessive memory consumption vulnerability in binutils
    
    Fixed in main a0e752df8013 and in 2021Q3 in 9c4ee12.
    
    PR:     256133
    Reviewed by:    fluffy@, koobs@
    Security:       CVE-2021-3487
---
 security/vuxml/vuln-2021.xml | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)

diff --git a/security/vuxml/vuln-2021.xml b/security/vuxml/vuln-2021.xml
index 2e4e71dee8b8..bb82132255ae 100644
--- a/security/vuxml/vuln-2021.xml
+++ b/security/vuxml/vuln-2021.xml
@@ -1,3 +1,34 @@
+  <vuln vid="f4c54b81-bcc8-11eb-a7a6-080027f515ea">
+    <topic>binutils -- excessive debug section size can cause excessive memory consumption in bfd's dwarf2.c read_section()</topic>
+    <affects>
+      <package>
+	<name>binutils</name>
+	<range><lt>2.33.1_5</lt></range>
+      </package>
+    </affects>
+    <description>
+      <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">;
+	<p>Hao Wang reports:</p>
+	<blockquote cite="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3487">;
+	  <p>
+	    There's a flaw in the BFD library of binutils in versions before 2.36.
+	    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.
+	  </p>
+	</blockquote>
+      </body>
+    </description>
+    <references>
+      <cvename>CVE-2021-3487</cvename>
+      <url>https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26946</url>;
+    </references>
+    <dates>
+      <discovery>2020-11-25</discovery>
+      <entry>2021-08-13</entry>
+    </dates>
+  </vuln>
+
   <vuln vid="128deba6-ff56-11eb-8514-3065ec8fd3ec">
     <topic>chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities</topic>
     <affects>



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