vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2019-9073: Binutils: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 24, 2019
Added
Jul 12, 2021
Modified
Mar 31, 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 attempted excessive memory allocation in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables in elf.c.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-devel-binutils
Title
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