CVE-2019-14444: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

apply_relocations in readelf.c in GNU Binutils 2.32 contains an integer overflow that allows attackers to trigger a write access violation (in byte_put_little_endian function in elfcomm.c) via an ELF file, as demonstrated by readelf.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 18.04 only
• GNU Binutils: version 2.32 only
• Netapp Hci Management Node: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Solidfire: affected versions not specified
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only; version 15.2 only

Published 2019-07-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.