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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-16592: Use After Free

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-16592: Use After Free

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/09/2020
Created
03/22/2024
Added
03/21/2024
Modified
03/22/2024

Description

A use after free issue exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) in GNU Binutils 2.34 in bfd_hash_lookup, as demonstrated in nm-new, that can cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-binutils

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