CVE-2021-3487

Publication date 15 April 2021

Last updated 4 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Rejected reason: Non Security Issue. See the binutils security policy for more details, https://sourceware.org/cgit/binutils-gdb/tree/binutils/SECURITY.txt

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
binutils 23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
21.10 impish
Not affected
21.04 hirsute
Not affected
20.10 groovy Ignored end of life
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2.34-6ubuntu1.3
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.7
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm3
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

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Patch details

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Package Patch details
binutils

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-5124-1
    • GNU binutils vulnerabilities
    • 25 October 2021
    • USN-5341-1
    • GNU binutils vulnerabilities
    • 22 March 2022

Other references