VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2019-9072

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.27%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-02-24
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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 setup_group in elf.c.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Primary references