CVE-2019-9073
MEDIUMGNU Binutils - Denial of Service via Excessive Memory Allocation in BFD Library
Title source: llmDescription
An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. It is an attempted excessive memory allocation in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables in elf.c.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24233
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190314-0003/
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K37121474
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/202107-24
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0027
EPSS Percentile
50.3%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-770
Status
published
Products (4)
canonical/ubuntu_linux
18.04
gnu/binutils
2.32
netapp/hci_management_node
netapp/solidfire
Published
Feb 24, 2019
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026