CVE-2019-12972

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: June 26, 2019 at 01:27 PM UTC
Updated: October 8, 2026 at 10:16 PM UTC
3 products affected across 3 vendorsUbuntu LinuxLeapBinutils

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

References (7)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00078.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00004.html
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDBroken LinkThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108903
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-39
x_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24689
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUThird Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-125

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