CVE-2019-9073 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 _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables 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://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190314-0003/ https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24233 https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K37121474 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

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