CVE-2020-16591

PoC —

CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium

EPSS

<1%p58

Published

Dec 9, 2020 (Dec 9, 2020)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) in GNU Binutils 2.35 due to an invalid read in process_symbol_table, as demonstrated in readeif.

Vendors: gnu netapp
Products: binutils, ontap select deploy administration utility
Weakness: CWE-125
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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