{"id":"CVE-2019-12972","details":"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.","modified":"2026-08-28T11:30:15.253062164Z","published":"2019-06-26T14:15:10.043Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2020:3060-1","SUSE-SU-2020:3552-1","SUSE-SU-2021:3593-1","openSUSE-SU-2020:1790-1","openSUSE-SU-2020:1804-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:10651-1"],"database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"18.04"},{"last_affected":"18.04"}],"source":"CPE_STRING","vendor_product":"canonical:ubuntu_linux","cpes":["cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*"]},{"vendor_product":"opensuse:leap","cpes":["cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"],"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"15.1"},{"last_affected":"15.1"},{"introduced":"15.2"},{"last_affected":"15.2"}],"source":"CPE_STRING"}]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=890f750a3b053532a4b839a2dd6243076de12031"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00078.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00004.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108903"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-39"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24689"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git","events":[{"introduced":"a9d9a104dde6a749f40ce5c4576a0042a7d52d1f"},{"last_affected":"a9d9a104dde6a749f40ce5c4576a0042a7d52d1f"}],"database_specific":{"cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","extracted_events":[{"introduced":"2.32"},{"last_affected":"2.32"}],"source":"CPE_STRING"}}],"versions":["2.32","binutils-2_32"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-12972.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}