CVE-2020-35448: GNU Binutils

Low severity, CVSS 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.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.35.1 only
• Netapp Ontap Select Deploy Administration Utility: affected versions not specified

Published 2020-12-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.