Bug 1214564 (CVE-2020-21490)

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2020-21490: binutils: memory leak in get_field() in microblaze-dis.c
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	Robert Frohl <rfrohl>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	Michael Matz <matz>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	security-team
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/375963/
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Found By:	Security Response Team	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Description Robert Frohl 2023-08-24 09:45:07 UTC

CVE-2020-21490

An issue was discovered in GNU Binutils 2.34. It is a memory leak when process
microblaze-dis.c. This one will consume memory on each insn disassembled.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2020-21490
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2233943
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-21490
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25249
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=378fd436405b3051df34ac995b2e03fe1f3d1907

Comment 2 Robert Frohl 2023-08-24 09:47:50 UTC

all supported versions carry the fix, closing