vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2020-35495: binutils -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 4, 2021
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

There's a flaw in binutils /bfd/pef.c. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted input file to be processed by the objdump program could cause a null pointer dereference. The greatest threat from this flaw is to application availability. This flaw affects binutils versions prior to 2.34.

Solution

debian-upgrade-binutils
Title
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