Vulnerability Details CVE-2019-12972
An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. There is a heap-based buffer over-read in _bfd_doprnt in bfd.c because elf_object_p in elfcode.h mishandles an e_shstrndx section of type SHT_GROUP by omitting a trailing '\0' character.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.002
EPSS Ranking 47.4%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.5
CVSS v2 Score 4.3
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00078.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00004.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108903
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-39
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24689
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=890f750a3b053532a4b839a2dd6243076de12031
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00078.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00004.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108903
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-39
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24689
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=890f750a3b053532a4b839a2dd6243076de12031
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/