Resource exhaustion in Binutils - CVE-2019-9073
Published: August 1, 2019 / Updated: January 21, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU19610
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 2.1 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-9073
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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.
Affected software
Binutils
Gentoo Linux
sys-devel/binutils
Gentoo Linux
sys-devel/binutils
How to mitigate CVE-2019-9073
Install update from vendor's website.
Binutils - update to 2.33.1
sys-devel/binutils - update to 2.35.2
sys-devel/binutils - update to 2.35.2