CVE-2019-9072 Information

Description

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 setup_group in elf.c.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89396 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190314-0003/ https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24232 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24237 https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K12541829

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5