Bug 1214564 (CVE-2020-21490) - VUL-0: CVE-2020-21490: binutils: memory leak in get_field() in microblaze-dis.c
Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2020-21490: binutils: memory leak in get_field() in microblaze-dis.c
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2020-21490
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Michael Matz
QA Contact: Security Team bot
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/375963/
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Reported: 2023-08-24 09:45 UTC by Robert Frohl
Modified: 2023-08-24 09:47 UTC (History)
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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