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CVE-2019-14250

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-07-24 · updated 2026-10-08
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

An issue was discovered in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. simple_object_elf_match in simple-object-elf.c does not check for a zero shstrndx value, leading to an integer overflow and resultant heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04
• GNU Binutils: 2.32
• openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 15.1, 15.2

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00056.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00057.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00058.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00078.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00004.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/109354
• https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90924
• https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2019-07/msg01003.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-39
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190822-0002/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

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