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.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16591
Reference (s):
- 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;h=001890e1f9269697f7e0212430a51479271bdab2