A Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.35, in scan_unit_for_symbols, as demonstrated in addr2line, that can cause a denial of service via a crafted file.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16593
Reference (s):
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210122-0003/
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25827
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=aec72fda3b320c36eb99fc1c4cf95b10fc026729