Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting binutils package, versions <2.32.51.20190707-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.1% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ECHOLATEST-BINUTILS-17992773
  • published16 Jul 2026
  • disclosed24 Feb 2019

Introduced: 24 Feb 2019

CVE-2019-9073  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Echo:latest 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 Echo. See How to fix? for Echo:latest 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 attempted excessive memory allocation in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables in elf.c.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1