CVE-2020-16590

medium

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.

References

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=c98a4545dc7bf2bcaf1de539c4eb84784680eaa4

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25821

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210115-0003/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-12-09

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H