[Bug binutils/19628] null pointer dereference when linking crafted file

[nickc at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19628

--- Comment #4 from Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Aladdin Mubaied from comment #3)
> Thanks, do you think CVE is required here to warn users about this bug?

[I am not a security expert]. I think not.  This particular bug only causes the
linker to read via a NULL pointer.  It could not be used to make the linker
read
from any other address or write to any arbitrary address, so I do not think
that
it represents a security issue.

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