CVE-2019-9072 Denial of service in n/a
An attacker can cause a denial of service via excessive memory allocation in the BFD library when processing malicious ELF files.
- 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
- None listed
What is CVE-2019-9072?
CVE-2019-9072 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Gnu Binutils, published on 24 Feb 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
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: CWE-770
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-9072?
It affects 3 products.
Products include Gnu Binutils, Netapp Hci Management Node, Netapp Solidfire.
How do I fix CVE-2019-9072?
No fix has been published for CVE-2019-9072 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
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-2019-9072 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-9072 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Gnu Binutils
Sources
Also known as GHSA-f96p-jhrp-872g, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-9072.