CVE-2019-17451
It is an integer overflow leading to a SEGV in _bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line in dwarf2.c, as demonstrated by nm.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.40%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. It is an integer overflow leading to a SEGV in _bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line in dwarf2.c, as demonstrated by nm.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.40% probability · 84th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-190
- Affected
- gnu/binutils · opensuse/leap · canonical/ubuntu linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 2.4% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00078.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00004.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-39Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191024-0002/Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25070Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=336bfbeb1848f4b9558456fdcf283ee8a32d7fd1
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00078.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00004.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-39Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191024-0002/Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25070Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=336bfbeb1848f4b9558456fdcf283ee8a32d7fd1
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.