VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2019-9073
An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32.
MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 1.10%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.10%). 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 attempted excessive memory allocation in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables in elf.c.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.10% probability · 65th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-770
- Affected
- gnu/binutils · netapp/hci management node · netapp/solidfire · canonical/ubuntu linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 1.1% 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
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-24Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190314-0003/Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24233Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K37121474Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-24Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190314-0003/Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24233Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K37121474Third Party Advisory
- 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.