CVE-2019-1010204 Denial of service in gold
An attacker can cause a denial of service in the GNU binutils gold linker by providing a specially crafted ELF file with an invalid header field.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2019-1010204?
CVE-2019-1010204 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Gnu Binutils, published on 23 Jul 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
GNU binutils gold gold v1.11-v1.16 (GNU binutils v2.21-v2.31.1) is affected by: Improper Input Validation, Signed/Unsigned Comparison, Out-of-bounds Read. The impact is: Denial of service. The component is: gold/fileread.cc:497, elfcpp/elfcpp_file.h:644. The attack vector is: An ELF file with an invalid e_shoff header field must be opened.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-1010204?
It affects 4 products.
Linux distribution packages (1)
binutils openSUSE:Tumbleweed | All versions | 2.39-1.1 |
Products include Gnu Binutils, Gnu Binutils Gold, Netapp Hci Management Node, Netapp Solidfire.
How do I fix CVE-2019-1010204?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2019-1010204 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-1010204 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Gnu Binutils
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-1010204, GHSA-r3p5-p24x-hqxq, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-1010204, USN-5349-1, openSUSE-SU-2024:12256-1.