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CVE-2020-16593

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.

Risk Information

Base Score
5.5
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.333

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
SUSE-SU-2021:3593-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) binutils-2.37-9.39.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2021:3593-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) binutils-debuginfo-2.37-9.39.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2021:3593-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) binutils-debugsource-2.37-9.39.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2021:3593-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) binutils-devel-2.37-9.39.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2021:3593-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) libctf-nobfd0-2.37-9.39.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2021:3593-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) libctf-nobfd0-debuginfo-2.37-9.39.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2021:3593-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) libctf0-2.37-9.39.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2021:3593-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) libctf0-debuginfo-2.37-9.39.1.x86_64.rpmLinux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234