CVE-2020-16592

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Dec 9, 2020
Updated: Aug 4, 2024
Reserved: Aug 3, 2020

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25823
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=7ecb51549ab1ec22aba5aaf34b70323cf0b8509a
FEDORA-2020-f903e139b1vendor-advisory
FEDORA-2020-18ec0bf4bbvendor-advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210115-0003/

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