CVE-2019-17451

MEDIUM

GNU Binutils - Integer Overflow

Title source: rule

Description

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. It is an integer overflow leading to a SEGV in _bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line in dwarf2.c, as demonstrated by nm.

References (7)

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00078.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00004.html

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-39

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191024-0002/

[Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25070

[Patch] https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=336bfbeb1848f4b9558456fdcf283ee8a32d7fd1

[Third Party Advisory] https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0074

EPSS Percentile 72.7%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-190

Status published

Affected Products (4)

gnu/binutils

opensuse/leap

canonical/ubuntu_linux

Timeline

Published Oct 10, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026