vulnerability

Alma Linux: CVE-2019-17450: Low: binutils security update (ALSA-2020-4465)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 10, 2019
Added
May 4, 2022
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

find_abstract_instance in dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

Solutions

alma-upgrade-binutilsalma-upgrade-binutils-devel
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