CVE-2019-17451

MEDIUM

GNU Binutils 2.32 - Integer Overflow in BFD Library via DWARF2 Line Number Parsing

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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)

Core 7
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25070
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191024-0002/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-39
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00078.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00004.html

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0074
EPSS Percentile 73.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-190
Status published
Products (4)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
gnu/binutils 2.32
opensuse/leap 15.1
opensuse/leap 15.2
Published Oct 10, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026