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CVE-2019-9073

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 _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables in elf.c.

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
binutils
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic
Released (2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3)
cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Ignored
(end of life)
eoan Not vulnerable
(2.33-2ubuntu1)
focal Not vulnerable
(2.34-5ubuntu1)
groovy Not vulnerable
(2.34-5ubuntu1)
hirsute Not vulnerable
(2.34-5ubuntu1)
impish Not vulnerable
(2.34-5ubuntu1)
jammy Not vulnerable
(2.34-5ubuntu1)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(2.34-5ubuntu1)
lunar Not vulnerable
(2.34-5ubuntu1)
mantic Not vulnerable
(2.34-5ubuntu1)
trusty Needed

upstream
Released (2.33)
xenial
Released (2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
Patches:
upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=7d272a55caebfc26ab2e15d1e9439bac978b9bb7

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