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NTAP-20250228-0005 — CVE-2021-3549 GNU Binutils Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2025-02-28 · Updated 2025-09-19 · Status: Interim · Exploitation: Public · Severity: HIGH 7.1 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20250228-0005 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: SolidFire / NetApp HCI · ONTAP · Other NetApp products | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 7.1

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2021-3549 — HIGH · CVSS 7.1 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2021-3549 — An out of bounds flaw was found in GNU binutils objdump utility version 2.36. An attacker could use this flaw and pass a large section to avr_elf32_load_records_from_section() probably resulting in a crash or in some cases memory corruption. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to integrity as well as system availability.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to addition or modification of data, Denial of Service (DoS).

Affected products

NetApp HCI Compute Node (Bootstrap OS)
ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10
SRA Plugin for Linux

Official fixes

ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10 — vendor fix ↗

What to do

Check the affected products listed above against the official advisory's affected-versions table — that is where the exact ONTAP 9 release, ONTAP tool, or management product versions are named.
If affected and a fixed release exists, plan the upgrade — see the ONTAP upgrade runbook.
If exploitation is listed as "active", treat remediation as urgent and review exposure (management LIFs, ONTAP S3, SnapMirror endpoints).
Harden in parallel: security hardening baseline and ransomware protection on ONTAP.