CVE-2020-16591

MEDIUM

GNU Binutils - Out-of-Bounds Read

Title source: rule

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.

References (3)

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0039
EPSS Percentile 59.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-125
Status published

Affected Products (2)

gnu/binutils
netapp/ontap_select_deploy_administration_utility

Timeline

Published Dec 09, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026