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DEBIAN-CVE-2020-16599

A Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.35, in _bfd...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

A Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.35, in _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string, as demonstrated in nm-new, that can cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 binutils

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.35-1"}]}]

Debian:13 binutils

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.35-1"}]}]

Debian:14 binutils

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.35-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org