Excessive Memory Allocation Vulnerability in GNU Binutils 2.32

Excessive Memory Allocation Vulnerability in GNU Binutils 2.32

CVE-2019-9073 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

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