Out-of-bounds Read Affecting binutils package, versions [0,2.35)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-2368428
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Dec 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Dec 2020

CVE-2020-16591  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (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 Out-of-bounds Read. 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.

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