CVE-2019-17450

6.5 mediumEPSS 2.8%

Medium (6.5). EPSS 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

find_abstract_instance in dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.5 medium

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

EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 86% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-674
Published: 2019-10-10
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

canonical:ubuntu_linux
gnu:binutils
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-20191024-0002/
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25078

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