CVE-2020-16591

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    CVE-2020-16591

    Published: 9 Dec 2020Last Modified: 28 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=001890e1f9269697f7e0212430a51479271bdab2, https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25822, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210115-0003/

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 2cb5c79dad39dd438fb0f7372ac04cf5aa2a7db7
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.35

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
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    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    User Interaction
    None
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    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
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    Availability
    None
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    High
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