CVE-2019-9076

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

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 elf_read_notes in elf.c.

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 elf_read_notes in elf.c.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.5. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 5 years ago

2019-02-24 00:29:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-05-23 20:29:00

Affected Software

GNU Binutils 2.32

2.32

References

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190314-0003/

Patch, Third Party Advisory

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24238

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K44650639

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