CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-16593
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-12-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
A Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.35, in scan_unit_for_symbols, as demonstrated in addr2line, that can cause a denial of service via a crafted file.
Affected configurations
• gnu binutils 2.35
• netapp cloud backup
• netapp ontap select deploy administration utility
• netapp solidfire \& hci management node
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210122-0003/ Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25827 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=aec72fda3b320c36eb99fc1c4cf95b10fc026729 sourceware.org
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210122-0003/ Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25827 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=aec72fda3b320c36eb99fc1c4cf95b10fc026729 sourceware.org