cvelistv5 - cve-2020-16599

cve-2020-16599

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2020-12-09 21:06

Modified

2024-08-04 13:45

Severity ?

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.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210122-0003/	Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25842	Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=8d55d10ac0d112c586eaceb92e75bd9b80aadcc4
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210122-0003/	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25842	Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=8d55d10ac0d112c586eaceb92e75bd9b80aadcc4

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