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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-9076

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 elf_read_notes in elf.c.

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1 Nov 2026, 06:09 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2019-9076

core-osv · Original source

Published 24 Feb 2019, 00:29 UTC

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 elf_read_notes in elf.c.

osv:CVE-2019-9076
Complete source record
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  "method": "structured",
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      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
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        "https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K44650639",
        "https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24238",
        "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190314-0003/"
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