CVE-2019-9072: GNU Binutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 setup_group in elf.c.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.32 only
• Netapp Hci Management Node: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Solidfire: affected versions not specified

Published 2019-02-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.