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CVE-2020-16591

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Date: December 9, 2020

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.5

Related Resources (7)

Url: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=001890e1f9269697f7e0212430a51479271bdab2

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16591

Url: https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210115-0003/

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-16591

Url: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25822

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16591

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2020-16591

Severity Score

5.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Read

CWE-125

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version binutils-2_35

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.5
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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