CVE-2019-9073
binutils: excessive memory allocation in function _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables in elf.c
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Severity
UnknownRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · February 19, 2019
Updated · November 22, 2025
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 score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 0CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:N
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption