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Vigil@nce - libbfd: use after free via bfd_hash_lookup
March 2021 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Fedora.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: user access/rights, denial of service on service, denial of service on client.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 28/12/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can force the usage of a freed memory area via bfd_hash_lookup() of libbfd, in order to trigger a denial of service, and possibly to run code.
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