SB2019070208 - Denial of service in GNU Binutils
Published: July 2, 2019 Updated: March 23, 2022
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019070208
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-12972)
The vulnerability allows an attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to heap-based buffer over-read condition within the "_bfd_doprnt" function in the "bfd.c" file in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library. A local attacker can pass a malformed ELF binary to the affected application and perform a denial of service attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.