CVE-2019-9072 (GCVE-0-2019-9072)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-02-24 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 21:38
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Summary
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 setup_group in elf.c.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2019-02-23 00:00
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