CVE-2019-9073

5.5 mediumEPSS 1.1%

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. It is an attempted excessive memory allocation in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables in elf.c.

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: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 65% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-770
Published: 2019-02-24
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

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

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-24
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190314-0003/
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24233
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K37121474
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

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