CVE-2020-35493 vulnerability in GNU and Other Products
Published on January 4, 2021
A flaw exists in binutils in bfd/pef.c. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted PEF file to be parsed by objdump could cause a heap buffer overflow -> out-of-bounds read that could lead to an impact to application availability. This flaw affects binutils versions prior to 2.34.
Vulnerability Analysis
Exploitation:
NONE
Automatable:
NO
Technical Impact:
PARTIAL
Weakness Type
Improper Input Validation
The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.
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