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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting binutils package, versions <2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1

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Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.19% (57th percentile)
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NVD
5.5 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1604-BINUTILS-561093
  • published 24 Feb 2019
  • disclosed 24 Feb 2019
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Introduced: 24 Feb 2019

CVE-2019-9073 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-770 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04 binutils to version 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils package and not the binutils package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

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 _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables in elf.c.