{"action":"Upgrade binutils to 2.37-3 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"2.37-3","introduced":"0"}],"component":"binutils","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Debian","ecosystem_qualifier":"Debian:13","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["2.37-3"],"id":"tcs_01M5NFAQV2AFP966S091QKVTE8","modified_at":"2026-10-23T18:03:24.193217115Z","published_at":"2021-03-26T17:15:12.920Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-20197","https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-20197"],"severity":{"label":"medium","score":6.3},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2021-20197#Debian:13/binutils","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-20197"}],"summary":"There is an open race window when writing output in the following utilities in GNU binutils version 2.35 and earlier:ar, objcopy, strip, ranlib. When these utilities are run as a privileged user (pres"}