DEBIAN-CVE-2020-16599

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-16599 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1

5.5

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

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Debian:14	binutils	0, 0, 0
Debian:11	binutils	0, 0, 0
Debian:12	binutils	0, 0, 0
Debian:13	binutils	0, 0, 0

Timeline

Dec 9, 2020 CVE Published
Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-16599 advisory

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