Impact: Moderate Public Date: 2019-08-09 CWE: CWE-190 Bugzilla: 1739490: CVE-2019-14250 binutils: integer overflow in simple-object-elf.c leads to a heap-based buffer overflow 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.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2019-14250 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 5.5 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| Attack Vector | Local |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | Required |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | High |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | None |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | binutils | Under investigation |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | binutils | Under investigation |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | binutils | Under investigation |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | binutils | Under investigation |
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