CVEs-PoC/2020/CVE-2020-16593.md

### [CVE-2020-16593](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16593)
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### Description

A Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.35, in scan_unit_for_symbols, as demonstrated in addr2line, that can cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25827

#### Github
- https://github.com/Live-Hack-CVE/CVE-2020-16593
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