VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-35493

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.14%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-01-04
Last modified2026-10-08
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

A flaw exists in binutils in bfd/pef.c. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted PEF file to be parsed by objdump could cause a heap buffer overflow -> out-of-bounds read that could lead to an impact to application availability. This flaw affects binutils versions prior to 2.34.

Weakness classification

  • secalert@redhat.com: CWE-20

Primary references