CVE-2019-9074

NameCVE-2019-9074
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. It is an out-of-bounds read leading to a SEGV in bfd_getl32 in libbfd.c, when called from pex64_get_runtime_function in pei-x86_64.c.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
binutils (PTS)jessie2.25-5+deb8u1vulnerable
stretch2.28-5vulnerable
buster2.31.1-16vulnerable
bullseye2.35.2-2fixed
bookworm2.40-2fixed
sid, trixie2.42-4fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
binutilssource(unstable)2.32.51.20190707-1unimportant

Notes

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24235
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=179f2db0d9c397d7dd8a59907b84208b79f7f48c
binutils not covered by security support
[wheezy] - binutils <ignored> (Minor issue)

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