DEBIAN-CVE-2019-12972

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-12972 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Debian:11	binutils	0, 0, 0
Debian:14	binutils	0, 0, 0
Debian:12	binutils	0, 0, 0
Debian:13	binutils	0, 0, 0

Timeline

Jun 26, 2019 CVE Published
Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-12972 advisory

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