CVE-2020-16592

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-16592
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-16592.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-16592
Downstream
Related
Published
2020-12-09T21:15:15.180Z
Modified
2026-07-08T05:56:33.551403425Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

A use after free issue exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) in GNU Binutils 2.34 in bfdhashlookup, as demonstrated in nm-new, that can cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "fedoraproject:fedora",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "32"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "32"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "33"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "33"
                }
            ],
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
Events
Introduced
d7f734bc7e9e5fb6c33b433973b57e1eed3a7e9f
Last affected
d7f734bc7e9e5fb6c33b433973b57e1eed3a7e9f
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_STRING",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.34"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.34"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.34
Other
binutils-2_34

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-16592.json"