vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2019-17451): GNU binutils vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 10, 2019
Added
Apr 23, 2020
Modified
Aug 18, 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 integer overflow leading to a SEGV in _bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line in dwarf2.c, as demonstrated by nm.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-binutilsubuntu-pro-upgrade-binutils-multiarch
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