CVE-2020-16598

[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.

The version of binutils shipped in Red Hat Developer Toolset 10 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8's GCC Toolset 10 is not affected by this flaw because it has already been patched.

Also, please note that this CVE has been rejected Upstream and it is not considered as a security issue.

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