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Debian: CVE-2019-17451: binutils -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 10, 2019
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. It is an integer overflow leading to a SEGV in _bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line in dwarf2.c, as demonstrated by nm.

Solution

debian-upgrade-binutils
Title
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