CVE-2020-16598

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU Binutils version 2.34

Description A Null Pointer Dereference issue exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library, as distributed in GNU Binutils, in the debug get real type function, as demonstrated in objdump, that can cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Recommendations For GNU Binutils version 2.34, consider avoiding the use of the debug get real type function until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.