cvelistv5 - CVE-2020-16591

CVE-2020-16591

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2020-12-09 21:05

Modified

2024-08-04 13:45

Severity ?

Summary

A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) in GNU Binutils 2.35 due to an invalid read in process_symbol_table, as demonstrated in readeif.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210115-0003/	Technical Description
cve@mitre.org	https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25822	Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=001890e1f9269697f7e0212430a51479271bdab2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210115-0003/	Technical Description
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25822	Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=001890e1f9269697f7e0212430a51479271bdab2

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