CVE-2020-35493 (GCVE-0-2020-35493)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-01-04 14:22
Modified
2026-10-08 21:13
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-20 - ->CWE-122->CWE-125
Summary
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.
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