CVE-2020-16591

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.

CVSS v3.1

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

CVSS v2.0

4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

0.88% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 57th percentile

Published

2020-12-09

Updated

2024-08-04

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25822

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2020-16590
• CVE-2020-16592
• CVE-2020-16588
• CVE-2020-16593
• CVE-2020-16587
• CVE-2020-16599