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Medium 5.5Published Jul 24, 2019
CVE-2019-14250An issue was discovered in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32.
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An issue was discovered in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. simple_object_elf_match in simple-object-elf.c does not check for a zero shstrndx value, leading to an integer overflow and resultant heap-based buffer overflow.
- CVSS
- 5.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- Not given
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- mitre
- NVD analysis
- Modified
- Record last updated
- Oct 8, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
gnu binutils gnu:binutils | 2.32 | NVD |
canonical ubuntu_linux canonical:ubuntu_linux | 16.04; 18.04 | NVD |
opensuse leap opensuse:leap | 15.0; 15.1; 15.2 | NVD |
References
- https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90924x-refsource-misc
- https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2019-07/msg01003.htmlx-refsource-misc
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/109354vdb-entry, x-refsource-bid
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190822-0002/x-refsource-confirm
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00056.htmlvendor-advisory, x-refsource-suse
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00057.htmlvendor-advisory, x-refsource-suse
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/vendor-advisory, x-refsource-ubuntu
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/vendor-advisory, x-refsource-ubuntu
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00058.htmlvendor-advisory, x-refsource-suse
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-39vendor-advisory, x-refsource-gentoo
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00078.htmlvendor-advisory, x-refsource-suse
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00004.htmlvendor-advisory, x-refsource-suse
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