Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libctf0 package, versions <2.35-7.11.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES152-LIBCTF0-2698860
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed28 Oct 2020

Introduced: 28 Oct 2020

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

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.2 libctf0 to version 2.35-7.11.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libctf0 package and not the libctf0 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.2 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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