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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY

Impacted products: openSUSE Leap, SIMATIC, SUSE Linux Enterprise
Desktop, SLES.

Severity: 2/4.

Consequences: denial of service on service, denial of service on
client.

Provenance: document.

Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).

Creation date: 15/10/2019.

DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY

An attacker can force a NULL pointer to be dereferenced via
read_reloc() of libbfd, in order to trigger a denial of service.

ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN

https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/libbfd-NULL-pointer-dereference-via-read-reloc-30621