CVE-2019-12972

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. There is a heap-based buffer over-read in _bfd_doprnt in bfd.c because elf_object_p in elfcode.h mishandles an e_shstrndx section of type SHT_GROUP by omitting a trailing '\0' character.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2019-06-26

Last modified

2026-10-08

Weaknesses

CWE-125

Affected products

• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Binutils (Gnu)
• Leap (Opensuse)

References

• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24689
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=890f750a3b053532a4b839a2dd6243076de12031
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108903
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-39
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00078.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00004.html