CVE-2019-9073

MEDIUM

GNU Binutils - Resource Allocation Without Limits

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 attempted excessive memory allocation in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables in elf.c.

References (5)

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0027
EPSS Percentile 50.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-770
Status published

Affected Products (4)

gnu/binutils
netapp/hci_management_node
netapp/solidfire
canonical/ubuntu_linux

Timeline

Published Feb 24, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026