CVE-2020-16591 — Out-of-bounds Read in Binutils

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read6 documents6 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 40.74%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
GNU Binutils
Timeline
PublishedDec 9
Latest updateMay 24

Description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debiangnu/binutils< 2.35-1+3
▶NVDgnu/binutils2.35

Patches

Patch: sourceware.org ↗Patch: sourceware.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-grmj-8wvf-p5xh: A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) in GNU Binutils 2↗2022-05-24
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CVEList
CVE-2020-16591: A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) in GNU Binutils 2↗2020-12-09
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OSV
CVE-2020-16591: A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) in GNU Binutils 2↗2020-12-09
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
binutils: invalid read in process_symbol_table could result in DoS↗2020-12-10
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Debian
CVE-2020-16591: binutils - A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) in ...↗2020
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