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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2020-19726

High
8.8/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in binutils "coffgen.c" in versions prior to 2.37 relating to the auxiliary symbol data allows attackers to read or write to system memory or cause a Denial of Service (DOS).

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published