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CVE-2020-21490 (GCVE-0-2020-21490)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-22 00:00 – Updated: 2024-10-04 16:16
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in GNU Binutils 2.34. It is a memory leak when process microblaze-dis.c. This one will consume memory on each insn disassembled.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-04 16:16 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
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