CVE-2020-16599 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Binutils
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 77.72%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 9
Latest updateJun 20
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.
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 Packages4 packages
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
4GHSA▶
GHSA-77qx-69hx-pmqh: A Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2↗2022-05-24
OSV▶
CVE-2020-16599: A Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2↗2020-12-09
CVEList▶
CVE-2020-16599: A Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2↗2020-12-09
📋Vendor Advisories
5Microsoft▶
An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an inc↗2023-01-10
Red Hat▶
binutils: NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string leads to segfault↗2022-10-19
Red Hat▶
binutils: Null Pointer Dereference in _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string could result in DoS↗2020-12-10
Debian▶
CVE-2020-16599: binutils - A Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (B...↗2020