{"cve":"CVE-2019-12972","nvd":{"published":"2019-06-26T14:15:10.043","modified":"2026-10-08T22:16:49.560","status":"Modified","description":"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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":["CWE-125"],"references":["http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00078.html","http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00004.html","http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108903","https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-39","https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24689"],"products":["canonical:ubuntu_linux","gnu:binutils","opensuse:leap"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T20:57:00.690689396+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2019-12972","score":0.01802,"percentile":0.78359,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}