CVE-2019-9076
binutils: excessive memory allocation in function elf_read_notes 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 elf_read_notes 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