Out-of-bounds Read Affecting binutils package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.07% (30th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-BINUTILS-1050284
- published 11 Dec 2020
- disclosed 9 Dec 2020
Introduced: 9 Dec 2020
CVE-2020-16591 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:9
binutils
.
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:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-16591
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210115-0003/
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25822
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=001890e1f9269697f7e0212430a51479271bdab2
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=001890e1f9269697f7e0212430a51479271bdab2