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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2020-16592: binutils security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2020-16592: binutils security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/09/2020
Created
01/06/2021
Added
01/05/2021
Modified
01/05/2021

Description

A use after free issue exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) in GNU Binutils 2.34 in bfd_hash_lookup, as demonstrated in nm-new, that can cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp9-upgrade-binutils

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