CVE-2019-12972

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.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=890f750a3b053532a4b839a2dd6243076de12031

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-39

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00004.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00078.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3