CVE-2020-35448

3.3 lowEPSS 1.2%

Low (3.3). EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

3.3 low

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 69% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-125
Published: 2020-12-27
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

gnu:binutils
netapp:ontap_select_deploy_administration_utility

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-24
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210129-0008/
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26574
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=8642dafaef21aa6747cec01df1977e9c52eb4679
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-24

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