CVE-2020-16599
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2020-16599 |
| State | PUBLIC |
| Assigner | [email protected] |
| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
| Published | 2020-12-09 21:15:00 UTC |
| Updated | 2023-11-07 03:18:00 UTC |
| 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 Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
|---|
| sourceware.org Git - binutils-gdb.git/commit |
MISC |
sourceware.org |
Patch, Third Party Advisory |
| sourceware.org Git - binutils-gdb.git/commit |
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sourceware.org |
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| 25842 – Null pointer dereference in nm-new |
MISC |
sourceware.org |
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory |
| December 2020 GNU Binutils Vulnerabilities in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security |
CONFIRM |
security.netapp.com |
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| CVE Program record |
CVE.ORG |
www.cve.org |
canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail |
NVD |
nvd.nist.gov |
canonical, analysis |
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.
Legacy QID Mappings
- 751313 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for binutils (SUSE-SU-2021:3593-1)
- 751321 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for binutils (SUSE-SU-2021:3616-1)
- 751331 OpenSUSE Security Update for binutils (openSUSE-SU-2021:3616-1)
- 751350 OpenSUSE Security Update for binutils (openSUSE-SU-2021:1475-1)
- 751916 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for binutils (SUSE-SU-2022:0934-1)