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CVE-2018-19931

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-12-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils through 2.31. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in bfd_elf32_swap_phdr_in in elfcode.h because the number of program headers is not restricted.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 18.04
• GNU Binutils: through 2.31
• NetApp VASA Provider for Clustered Data ONTAP: from 7.2

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106144
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0004/
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23942
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=5f60af5d24d181371d67534fa273dd221df20c07
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106144
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01

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