{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 3 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-17450 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2019-17450 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 10 Oct 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2019-17450 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2019-17450 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 10 Oct 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-17450 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Canonical Ubuntu Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-17450/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-17450/index.md)","id":"CVE-2019-17450","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-17450/index.md","name":"CVE-2019-17450","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2019-17450","GHSA-8c3q-4m86-34f8","RHSA-2020:4465","UBUNTU-CVE-2019-17450"],"analysis":{"component_type":"library","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"GNU Binutils BFD library","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Remote attackers can cause a denial of service via infinite recursion in the BFD library when processing crafted ELF 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Bypass","id":"CVE-2020-11651","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2020-04-30"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2020-7247","kev_date_added":"2022-03-25","published":"2020-01-29"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Exim Out-of-bounds Write","id":"CVE-2019-16928","kev_date_added":"2022-03-03","published":"2019-09-27"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Exim Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2018-6789","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2018-02-08"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2015-2590","kev_date_added":"2022-03-03","published":"2015-07-16"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Oracle JRE Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2013-0422","kev_date_added":"2022-05-25","published":"2013-01-10"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Oracle Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) Arbitrary Code 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