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medium 5.5

CVE-2020-35495 json

There's a flaw in binutils /bfd/pef.c.

published 2021-01-04 5 y ago modified 2026-10-08 31 d ago also EUVD-2020-23164

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 68%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

There's a flaw in binutils /bfd/pef.c. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted input file to be processed by the objdump program could cause a null pointer dereference. The greatest threat from this flaw is to application availability. This flaw affects binutils versions prior to 2.34.

Patch / fix

  • gnu binutils 2.34
  • binutils Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.33.50.20200107-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-35495

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2020-35495 updated cvss 5.5

binutils: NULL pointer dereference in bfd_pef_parse_symbols function in bfd/pef.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 binutils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 binutils
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 binutils, gcc-toolset-9-binutils
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 gcc-toolset-10-binutils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 binutils, binutils-gold
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
31 d ago

Exploit prediction

1.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 68% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • bugzilla.redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1911441 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • n/a binutils

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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