Medium
Security advisory
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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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-9076
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- 1 Nov 2026, 06:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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