Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-16599 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 5.5 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
local
low complexity
gnu
netapp
CWE-476
NVD
Published: 2020-12-09
Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Gnu
1
Application
Netapp
4

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

References