Out-of-bounds Read Affecting binutils package, versions <2.32.51.20190707-1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-BINUTILS-337994
  • published24 Feb 2019
  • disclosed24 Feb 2019

Introduced: 24 Feb 2019

CVE-2019-9074  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable binutils to version 2.32.51.20190707-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils package and not the binutils package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. It is an out-of-bounds read leading to a SEGV in bfd_getl32 in libbfd.c, when called from pex64_get_runtime_function in pei-x86_64.c.

CVSS Scores

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