PT-2020-14872
CVE-2020-16598
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Published
2020-12-09
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Updated
2024-06-15
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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.
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