CVE-2020-16599 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25842 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=8d55d10ac0d112c586eaceb92e75bd9b80aadcc4 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210122-0003/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5