NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting binutils package, versions <2.35-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.11% (45th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-BINUTILS-1050288
- published 11 Dec 2020
- disclosed 9 Dec 2020
Introduced: 9 Dec 2020
CVE-2020-16593 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
binutils
to version 2.35-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils
package and not the binutils
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:11
relevant fixed versions and status.
A Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.35, in scan_unit_for_symbols, as demonstrated in addr2line, that can cause a denial of service via a crafted file.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-16593
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210122-0003/
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25827
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=aec72fda3b320c36eb99fc1c4cf95b10fc026729
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=aec72fda3b320c36eb99fc1c4cf95b10fc026729