Use After Free Affecting binutils package, versions [0,2.35)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.18% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-2368417
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Dec 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Dec 2020

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

How to fix?

Upgrade binutils to version 2.35 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. 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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