#VU19610 Resource exhaustion in Binutils - CVE-2019-9073

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#VU19610 Resource exhaustion in Binutils - CVE-2019-9073

Published: August 1, 2019 / Updated: January 21, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU19610
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-9073
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Binutils
Software vendor:
GNU

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when allocating memory in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables() function in elf.c within the libbfd library, distributed in GNU Binutils. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

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