CVE-2020-16599

Name
CVE-2020-16599
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.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
Mailing lists
Exploits
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
Exploit https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25842
Patch https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=8d55d10ac0d112c586eaceb92e75bd9b80aadcc4
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
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.35:*:*:*:*:*:*:* binutils == None == 2.35

Vulnerable and fixed packages

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