CVE-2020-16591
MEDIUM5.5EPSS 0.38%Published: 12/9/2020Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/binutilsfrom 0, < 2.35-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |