CVE-2020-16599 (GCVE-0-2020-16599)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-12-09 21:06 – Updated: 2024-08-04 13:45
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Summary
A Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.35, in _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string, as demonstrated in nm-new, that can cause a denial of service via a crafted file.
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