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CVE-2020-35448

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-12-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.35.1. A heap-based buffer over-read can occur in bfd_getl_signed_32 in libbfd.c because sh_entsize is not validated in _bfd_elf_slurp_secondary_reloc_section in elf.c.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: 2.35.1
• NetApp ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility: all versions

References

• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-24
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210129-0008/
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26574
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=8642dafaef21aa6747cec01df1977e9c52eb4679
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-24
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210129-0008/
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26574
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=8642dafaef21aa6747cec01df1977e9c52eb4679

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