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CVE-2019-9073

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-02-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-770

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 18.04
• GNU Binutils: 2.32
• NetApp Hci Management Node: all versions
• NetApp Solidfire: all versions

References

• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-24
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190314-0003/
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24233
• https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K37121474
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-24
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190314-0003/
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24233
• https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K37121474
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

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