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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2019-12972): GNU binutils vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2019-12972): GNU binutils vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/26/2019
Created
04/25/2020
Added
04/23/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. There is a heap-based buffer over-read in _bfd_doprnt in bfd.c because elf_object_p in elfcode.h mishandles an e_shstrndx section of type SHT_GROUP by omitting a trailing '\0' character.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-binutils
  • ubuntu-upgrade-binutils-multiarch

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