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CVE-2020-16591 (GCVE-0-2020-16591)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-12-09 21:05 – Updated: 2024-08-04 13:45
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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