vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2020-16599

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 9, 2020
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Feb 9, 2026

Description

A Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.35, in _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string, as demonstrated in nm-new, that can cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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