vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2020-16590: binutils: double free vulnerability in process_symbol_table could result in DoS

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 9, 2020
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

A double free vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) (aka libbrd) in GNU Binutils 2.35 in the process_symbol_table, as demonstrated in readelf, via a crafted file.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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