Bug 1906762 (CVE-2020-16599) - CVE-2020-16599 binutils: Null Pointer Dereference in _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string could result in DoS
Summary: CVE-2020-16599 binutils: Null Pointer Dereference in _bfd_elf_get_symbol_vers...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2020-16599
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1906763 1906764
Blocks: 1906786
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Reported: 2020-12-11 11:43 UTC by Michael Kaplan
Modified: 2021-02-16 18:44 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: binutils 2.35
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Last Closed: 2020-12-23 00:27:40 UTC
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Description Michael Kaplan 2020-12-11 11:43:38 UTC 
A Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.34, in _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string, as demonstrated in nm-new, that can cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

External References:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25842
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=8d55d10ac0d112c586eaceb92e75bd9b80aadcc4
Comment 1 Michael Kaplan 2020-12-11 11:44:10 UTC 
Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-32 [bug 1906763]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1906764]
Comment 6 Todd Cullum 2020-12-22 20:13:15 UTC 
Statement:

binutils as shipped in Red Hat Developer Toolsets 9 and 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 BaseOS and GCC Toolsets 9 and 10, are all not affected by this flaw as it was introduced in a newer version of binutils code than shipped for BaseOS and the 9 toolsets, and already patched in the versions shipped with 10 toolsets.
Comment 7 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-12-23 00:27:40 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-16599
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