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CVE-2020-16599

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5 EPSS 1.04%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2020-12-09 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2020-16599
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.5
EPSS
1.04%

Original NVD Description

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.