NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting binutils-devel-32bit package, versions <2.37-7.21.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.04% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES152-BINUTILSDEVEL32BIT-2660585
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed4 Nov 2021

Introduced: 4 Nov 2021

CVE-2020-16599  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1