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CVE-2019-9076

Published: 24 February 2019

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.

Notes

AuthorNote
sbeattie
upstream marked this as wontfix, due to binutils reporting a
failed to allocate error
mdeslaur
disputed by upstream, marking as ignored

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
binutils
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Ignored

cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Ignored
(end of life)
eoan Ignored

trusty Ignored

upstream Ignored

xenial Ignored

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H