Security advisory

{
  "id": "30b56e334f7e700f0c136339eb6745f2235e4159cab7e334755798b0f98e192e",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-12972",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2019-12972",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-12972",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2019-12972",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2019-12972"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
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            {
              "repo": "https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
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                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "a9d9a104dde6a749f40ce5c4576a0042a7d52d1f"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.32"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.32"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "2.32",
            "binutils-2_32"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-12972.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:26.501126742Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=890f750a3b053532a4b839a2dd6243076de12031",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-39",
        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/",
        "https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24689"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
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          {
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              "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "18.04"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "18.04"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "opensuse:leap",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "15.1"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "15.1"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "15.2"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "15.2"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2019-12972",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 431629,
  "published_at": "2019-06-26T14:15:10.043+00:00"
}