CVE-2019-9074Out-of-bounds Read in Binutils

CWE-125Out-of-bounds Read12 documents9 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 75.00%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedFeb 24
Latest updateMay 13

Description

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 vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

Debiangnu/binutils< 2.32.51.20190707-1+3
NVDgnu/binutils2.32

Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 18.04

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-cf6f-gv74-vg73: An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 22022-05-13
CVEList
CVE-2019-9074: An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 22019-02-24
OSV
CVE-2019-9074: An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 22019-02-24

📋Vendor Advisories

5
Ubuntu
GNU binutils vulnerabilities2021-07-21
Ubuntu
GNU binutils vulnerabilities2020-04-22
Red Hat
binutils: out-of-bound read in function bfd_getl32 in libbfd.c2019-02-19
Microsoft
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 calle2019-02-12
Debian
CVE-2019-9074: binutils - An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd)...2019

💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-9074 binutils: out-of-bound read in function bfd_getl32 in libbfd.c [fedora-all]2019-02-25
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-9074 binutils: out-of-bound read in function bfd_getl32 in libbfd.c [fedora-all]2019-02-25
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-9074 binutils: out-of-bound read in function bfd_getl32 in libbfd.c2019-02-25
CVE-2019-9074 — Out-of-bounds Read in GNU Binutils | cvebase