CVE-2020-16591

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Published at: - 09-12-2020 10:15

Last modified: - 23-03-2022 04:03

Total changes: - 6

Description

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.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Low

Attack complexity

Local

Attack vector

High

Availability

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Privileges required

Unchanged

Scope

Required

User interaction

5.5

Base score

1.8

3.6

Exploitability score

Impact score

Verification logic

vendor=gnu AND product=binutils AND version=2.35

vendor=netapp AND product=ontap_select_deploy_administration_utility AND version=-

Reference

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25822
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=001890e1f9269697f7e0212430a51479271bdab2
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210115-0003/

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