Name | CVE-2019-12972 |
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. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
---|---|---|---|
binutils (PTS) | bullseye | 2.35.2-2 | fixed |
bookworm | 2.40-2 | fixed | |
trixie | 2.43.50.20241230-1 | fixed | |
sid | 2.43.50.20250108-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
binutils | source | (unstable) | 2.32.51.20190707-1 | unimportant |
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24689
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=890f750a3b053532a4b839a2dd6243076de12031
binutils not covered by security support