Resource exhaustion in Binutils - CVE-2019-9076
Published: August 1, 2019 / Updated: January 21, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU19613
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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-2019-9076
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: GNU
Affected software:
Binutils
Binutils
Detailed vulnerability 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 elf_read_notes() function in elf.c within the libbfd library, distributed with GNU Binutils. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-9076
Install update from vendor's website.