Medium severity · published Jun 26, 2019
CVE-2019-12972
An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32
5.5
CVSS
1.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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 vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.8% · higher than 78% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BI
Binutils · Gnu
2.32 · source: NVD
LE
Leap · Opensuse
15.1; 15.2 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
18.04 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12972
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-12972
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00078.html
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00004.html
Broken Link
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108903
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-39
Exploit
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24689
sourceware.org
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=890f750a3b053532a4b839a2dd6243076de12031
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