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.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-23122 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.
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Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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{'score': 0.00173}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T17:02:08.053Z

Reserved: 2020-12-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-35448

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-12-27T04:15:12.840

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:27:17.847

Link: CVE-2020-35448

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2020-09-04T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-35448 - Bugzilla

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