CVE-2020-16591

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-125

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210115-0003/Technical Description
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25822Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=001890e1f9269697f7e0212430a51479271bdab2
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210115-0003/Technical Description
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25822Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=001890e1f9269697f7e0212430a51479271bdab2

Timeline

Published: Dec 9, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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