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.
Published: 2019-10-10
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-7840 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4336-1 GNU binutils vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4336-2 GNU binutils vulnerabilities
History

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Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00411}

epss

{'score': 0.00622}


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Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Gnu Binutils
Opensuse Leap
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T01:40:15.795Z

Reserved: 2019-10-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-17451

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Status : Modified

Published: 2019-10-10T17:15:17.717

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:32:20.797

Link: CVE-2019-17451

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2019-10-07T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-17451 - Bugzilla

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