{"action":"Upgrade binutils to 2.35-1 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"2.35-1","introduced":"0"}],"component":"binutils","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Debian","ecosystem_qualifier":"Debian:14","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["2.35-1"],"id":"tcs_01M5NEQES72WSBC0AF2JTK3915","modified_at":"2026-09-11T11:01:49.940370133Z","published_at":"2020-12-09T21:15:15.117Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-16591","https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-16591"],"severity":{"label":"medium","score":5.5},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2020-16591#Debian:14/binutils","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-16591"}],"summary":"A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) in GNU Binutils 2.35 due to an invalid read in process_symbol_table, as demonstrated in readeif."}