Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils Open this link in a new tab


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    EPSS 0.38% (73rd percentile)
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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-BINUTILS-337987
  • published 24 Feb 2019
  • disclosed 24 Feb 2019

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils package and not the binutils package as distributed by Debian.

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.