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🛡️ SUSE-SU-2021:3643-1 — binutils (CVE-2021-20294)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Security update for binutils

This update for binutils fixes the following issues:

  • For compatibility on old code stream that expect 'brcl 0,label' to

not be disassembled as 'jgnop label' on s390x. (bsc#1192267)

This reverts IBM zSeries HLASM support for now.

  • Fixed that ppc64 optflags did not enable LTO (bsc#1188941).
  • Fix empty man-pages from broken release tarball
  • Fixed a memory corruption with rpath option (bsc#1191473).
  • Fixed slow performance of stripping some binaries (bsc#1183909).

Security issue fixed:

  • CVE-2021-20294: Fixed out-of-bounds write in print_dynamic_symbol in readelf (bnc#1184519)

Affected software

SUSE-SU-2021:3643-1 is recorded against 1 package.

  • binutils (fixed in 2.37-7.26.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 9 November 2021 and last revised on 4 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

www.suse.com (Advisory)
bugzilla.suse.com (Report)
bugzilla.suse.com (Report)
bugzilla.suse.com (Report)
bugzilla.suse.com (Report)
bugzilla.suse.com (Report)
www.suse.com (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2021-11-09
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-02-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
binutils 2.37-7.26.1

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