CVE-2019-9073

Name	CVE-2019-9073
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
binutils (PTS)	buster	2.31.1-16	vulnerable
	bullseye	2.35.2-2	fixed
	bookworm, sid	2.40-2	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

Notes

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24233
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=7d272a55caebfc26ab2e15d1e9439bac978b9bb7
binutils not covered by security support