| 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, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, 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 | 2.40-2 | fixed |
| trixie | 2.41-7 | fixed |
| sid | 2.41.50.20231202-1 | 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 | | |
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