CVE-2018-19931
mediumpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.016 · 76 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils through 2.31. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in bfd_elf32_swap_phdr_in in elfcode.h because the number of program headers is not restricted.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.8–7.8
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affected products (11)
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references (40)
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- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.htmlcnnvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.htmlcnnvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106144cnnvd
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153865/Gentoo-Linux-Security-Advisory-201908-01.htmlcnnvd
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01cnnvd
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0004/cnnvd
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23942cnnvd
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=5f60af5d24d181371d67534fa273dd221df20c07cnnvd
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