CVE-2020-16592

CVE-2020-16592

Name

CVE-2020-16592

Description

A use after free issue exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) in GNU Binutils 2.34 in bfd_hash_lookup, as demonstrated in nm-new, that can cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

NVD Severity

medium

Other trackers

CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia

Mailing lists

oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq

Exploits

Exploit DB, Metasploit

Forges

GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

Type	URI
Exploit	https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25823
Patch	https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=7ecb51549ab1ec22aba5aaf34b70323cf0b8509a
FEDORA	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UKIMSD5FIC3QFJDKNHR2PSO6JYJGCLHB/
FEDORA	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DJIW6KKY2TSLD43XEZXG56WREIIBUIIQ/
CONFIRM	https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210115-0003/

Type

URI

Exploit

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25823

Patch

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=7ecb51549ab1ec22aba5aaf34b70323cf0b8509a

FEDORA

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UKIMSD5FIC3QFJDKNHR2PSO6JYJGCLHB/

FEDORA

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DJIW6KKY2TSLD43XEZXG56WREIIBUIIQ/

CONFIRM

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