cve/2020/CVE-2020-16599.md

### [CVE-2020-16599](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16599)
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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 _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string, as demonstrated in nm-new, that can cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25842

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