CVE-2020-16593

Name
CVE-2020-16593
Description
A Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.35, in scan_unit_for_symbols, as demonstrated in addr2line, 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)

References

Type URI
Exploit https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25827
Patch https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=aec72fda3b320c36eb99fc1c4cf95b10fc026729
CONFIRM https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210122-0003/

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.34:*:*:*:*:*:*:* binutils == None == 2.34

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
binutils 3.12-main 2.34-r2 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable