CVEs-PoC/2020/CVE-2020-16591.md

### [CVE-2020-16591](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16591)
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### Description

A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) in GNU Binutils 2.35 due to an invalid read in process_symbol_table, as demonstrated in readeif.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25822

#### Github
- https://github.com/fokypoky/places-list