CVE detail

CVE-2020-35448 — CVE-2020-35448

Published 2020-12-27 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor gnu · Product binutils · Source nvd

LOW

severity

CVSS-derived band

3.3

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0127

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

67.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.35.1. A heap-based buffer over-read can occur in bfd_getl_signed_32 in libbfd.c because sh_entsize is not validated in _bfd_elf_slurp_secondary_reloc_section in elf.c.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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