Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils  (opens in a new tab)


Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.18% (57th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-BINUTILS-338010
  • published24 Feb 2019
  • disclosed24 Feb 2019

Introduced: 24 Feb 2019

CVE-2019-9076  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils package and not the binutils package as distributed by Debian.

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.