VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-16591

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.89%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-12-09
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read

Primary references