Memory Leak The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package gdb-headless  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS9-GDBHEADLESS-5856874
  • published24 Aug 2023
  • disclosed10 Jan 2020

Introduced: 10 Jan 2020

CVE-2020-19724  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gdb-headless package and not the gdb-headless package as distributed by Centos.

A memory consumption issue in get_data function in binutils/nm.c in GNU nm before 2.34 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted command.