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CVE-2020-16599

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-12-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

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.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: 2.35
• NetApp Cloud Backup: all versions
• NetApp Hci Management Node: all versions
• NetApp ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility: all versions
• NetApp Solidfire: all versions

References

• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210122-0003/
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25842
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=8d55d10ac0d112c586eaceb92e75bd9b80aadcc4
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210122-0003/
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25842
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=8d55d10ac0d112c586eaceb92e75bd9b80aadcc4

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