ubuntu · CVE-2019-17451

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Priority: medium Published: 2019-10-10 17:15:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-18 17:09:46 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2019-17451 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (binutils), 18 status rows across 18 suites (bionic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 12, ignored 2, released 2, needed 1, needs-triage 1.

Description:

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. It is an integer overflow leading to a SEGV in _bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line in dwarf2.c, as demonstrated by nm.

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