CVE-2020-16591
MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: December 9, 2020 at 09:05 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:58 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsBinutilsONTAP Select Deploy administration utility
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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.9%
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
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
All versions
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (3)
x_refsource_CONFIRMTechnical Description
Source: [email protected]
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210115-0003/x_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25822CVSS
- Attack Vector
- LOCAL
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- REQUIRED
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-125
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