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CVE-2020-16591

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-12-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

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.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: 2.35
• NetApp ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility: all versions

References

• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210115-0003/
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25822
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=001890e1f9269697f7e0212430a51479271bdab2
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210115-0003/
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25822
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=001890e1f9269697f7e0212430a51479271bdab2

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