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NULL Pointer Dereference

CVE-2020-16599

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

A Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils prior to 2.35, in "_bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string", as demonstrated in "nm-new", that can cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

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  • Published