CVE-2020-35494

Publication date 4 January 2021

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

There's a flaw in binutils /opcodes/tic4x-dis.c. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted input file to be processed by binutils could cause usage of uninitialized memory. The highest threat is to application availability with a lower threat to data confidentiality. This flaw affects binutils versions prior to 2.34.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
binutils	20.10 groovy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
binutils	Upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=2c5b6e1a1c406cbe06e2d6f77861764ebd01b9ce

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.1 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	Low
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.1 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-35494