MEDIUM 5.5 Microsoft

CVE-2020-35493

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.

Microsoft Security Update 2021-Jan: 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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Published: 2021-01-12 · Source: Microsoft · Feed updated: 2026-09-07
This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5 was published on 2021-01-12 via Microsoft. Affected: cm1 binutils 2.32-5 on CBL Mariner 1.0.
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