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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-35448: Out-of-bounds Read

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

Published

Dec 27, 2020

Added

Aug 22, 2024

Modified

Mar 25, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.35.1. A heap-based buffer over-read can occur in bfd_getl_signed_32 in libbfd.c because sh_entsize is not validated in _bfd_elf_slurp_secondary_reloc_section in elf.c.

Solutions

alpine-linux-upgrade-mingw-w64-binutilsalpine-linux-upgrade-binutils-cross-embedded

References

CVE-2020-35448
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2020-35448
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-35448
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2020-23122
CWE-125
EUVD-EUVD-2020-23122

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