NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting binutils-devel-32bit package, versions <2.37-7.21.2
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-SLES152-BINUTILSDEVEL32BIT-2660585
- published 14 Apr 2022
- disclosed 4 Nov 2021
Introduced: 4 Nov 2021
CVE-2020-16599 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade SLES:15.2 binutils-devel-32bit to version 2.37-7.21.2 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils-devel-32bit package and not the binutils-devel-32bit package as distributed by SLES.
See How to fix? for SLES:15.2 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 _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string, as demonstrated in nm-new, that can cause a denial of service via a crafted file.
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16599.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179903
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1206080
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25842
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=8d55d10ac0d112c586eaceb92e75bd9b80aadcc4
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210122-0003/
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=8d55d10ac0d112c586eaceb92e75bd9b80aadcc4