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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

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Related Resources (8)

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=001890e1f9269697f7e0212430a51479271bdab2
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16591
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=001890e1f9269697f7e0212430a51479271bdab2
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210115-0003/
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-16591
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25822
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16591
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2020-16591

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Read

CWE-125

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CVSS v3.1

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