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Asymmetric denial of service In binutils220

Description

[REJECTED CVE] A Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils, in debug_get_real_type, as demonstrated in objdump, that can cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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