FKIE_CVE-2019-9076

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2019-02-24 00:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:43
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-24Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190314-0003/Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24238Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://support.f5.com/csp/article/K44650639Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-24Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190314-0003/Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24238Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K44650639Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
gnu binutils 2.32
netapp element_software_management *
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