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CVE-2019-17450

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-10-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-674

Description

find_abstract_instance in dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

Affected products

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

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00078.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00004.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-39
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191024-0002/
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25078
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00078.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00004.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-39
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191024-0002/
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25078
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

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