CVE-2019-14444

5.5 mediumEPSS 1.5%

Medium (5.5). EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

apply_relocations in readelf.c in GNU Binutils 2.32 contains an integer overflow that allows attackers to trigger a write access violation (in byte_put_little_endian function in elfcomm.c) via an ELF file, as demonstrated by readelf.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 74% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-190
Published: 2019-07-30
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

canonical:ubuntu_linux
gnu:binutils
netapp:hci_management_node
netapp:solidfire
opensuse:leap

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00078.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00004.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-39
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190822-0002/
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24829

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