CVE-2019-9073 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
- Available
What is CVE-2019-9073?
CVE-2019-9073 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, 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 _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables in elf.c.
Weakness: CWE-770
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-9073?
It affects 4 products.
Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Gnu Binutils, Netapp Hci Management Node, Netapp Solidfire.
How do I fix CVE-2019-9073?
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-2019-9073 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-9073 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-9073, GHSA-p22v-gx7q-2q9r, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-9073.