High
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in binutils libbfd.c 2.36 relating to the auxiliary symbol data allows attackers to read or write to system memory or cause a denial of service.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-19726
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:07 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in binutils libbfd.c 2.36 relating to the auxiliary symbol data allows attackers to read or write to system memory or cause a denial of service.
osv:CVE-2020-19726
Complete source record
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