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CVE-2020-16592

Date: December 9, 2020

A use after free issue exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) in GNU Binutils 2.34 in bfd_hash_lookup, as demonstrated in nm-new, that can cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.5

Related Resources (13)

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16592

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16592

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DJIW6KKY2TSLD43XEZXG56WREIIBUIIQ/

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UKIMSD5FIC3QFJDKNHR2PSO6JYJGCLHB/

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2020-16592

Url: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=7ecb51549ab1ec22aba5aaf34b70323cf0b8509a

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-16592

Url: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=7ecb51549ab1ec22aba5aaf34b70323cf0b8509a

Url: https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210115-0003/

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DJIW6KKY2TSLD43XEZXG56WREIIBUIIQ/

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UKIMSD5FIC3QFJDKNHR2PSO6JYJGCLHB/

Url: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25823

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2020-16592

Severity Score

5.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Use After Free

CWE-416

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.5
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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