CVE-2020-16591

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-16591
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-16591.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-16591
Downstream
BELL (1)
DEBIAN (1)
openSUSE (3)
SUSE (3)
Related
openSUSE (3)
SUSE (3)
Published
2020-12-09T21:15:15Z
Modified
2026-10-15T02:48:41Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
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

Affected packages

Git / sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
Events
Introduced
2cb5c79dad39dd438fb0f7372ac04cf5aa2a7db7
Last Affected
2cb5c79dad39dd438fb0f7372ac04cf5aa2a7db7
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "2.35"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "2.35"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.35
Other
binutils-2_35

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-16591.json"