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CVE-2020-16599

Published: Dec 9, 2020

Modified: Aug 4, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25842

x_refsource_MISC

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=8d55d10ac0d112c586eaceb92e75bd9b80aadcc4

x_refsource_MISC

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210122-0003/

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