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Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2010-BINUTILS-1056704
  • published8 Jan 2021
  • disclosed9 Dec 2020
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Introduced: 9 Dec 2020

CVE-2020-16592  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils package and not the binutils package as distributed by Ubuntu.

A use after free issue exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) in GNU Binutils 2.34 in bfd_hash_lookup, as demonstrated in nm-new, that can cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

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