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CVE-2019-9075 GNU Binutils

Affected softwareGNU Binutils
Severity7.8 High CVSS 3.1 2 scores
WeaknessOut-of-bounds write (CWE-787)
Published24 Feb 2019
Updated17 Jun 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. It is a heap-based buffer overflow in _bfd_archive_64_bit_slurp_armap in archive64.c.

Exploitation status

No public exploit

No exploit has been reported in the sources we check. Published 7 years ago.

  • CISA KEV not listed
  • VulnCheck KEV not listed
  • CISA Vulnrichment no assessment published
  • Indexed PoC none indexed
  • EPSS 1.7% chance in 30 days

Waratek protection

Outside Waratek scope

A Java vulnerability, but not one Waratek protects. It affects only Java on a user's desktop (applets, Web Start, JavaFX, the installer), sits in a product the Waratek agent can't be installed into, or is in a package we don't expect in business applications. The decision below says which.

  • Protection none
  • Action not pursued none
  • Review human Researcher
  • Record active
Decided by Manual classification of this CVE in the legacy dataset
Finding A manual classification set this CVE's status to Outside Waratek scope, but the CVE names a tracked product.

CVSS

7.8 HIGH v3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 2 metrics

We show the highest score from the newest CVSS version. Scores from different versions can't be compared, and the first score listed is sometimes a 0.0 placeholder.

VersionScoreBandVectorAssignerType
CVSS 3.1 7.8 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H NVD Primary published
CVSS 2.0 6.8 none AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P NVD Primary

Affected software and releases

Products and versions

18 products, 30 version entries
SourceVendorProductSchemeAffected versions
nvd canonical ubuntu linux generic 18.04
nvd f5 big-ip access policy manager generic 14.1.0 · 15.0.0
nvd f5 big-ip advanced firewall manager generic 14.1.0 · 15.0.0
nvd f5 big-ip analytics generic 14.1.0 · 15.0.0
nvd f5 big-ip application acceleration manager generic 14.1.0 · 15.0.0
nvd f5 big-ip application security manager generic 14.1.0 · 15.0.0
nvd f5 big-ip domain name system generic 14.1.0 · 15.0.0
nvd f5 big-ip edge gateway generic 14.1.0 · 15.0.0
nvd f5 big-ip fraud protection service generic 14.1.0 · 15.0.0
nvd f5 big-ip global traffic manager generic 14.1.0 · 15.0.0
nvd f5 big-ip link controller generic 14.1.0 · 15.0.0
nvd f5 big-ip local traffic manager generic 14.1.0 · 15.0.0
nvd f5 big-ip policy enforcement manager generic 14.1.0 · 15.0.0
nvd f5 big-ip policy webaccelerator generic 14.1.0
nvd f5 big-ip webaccelerator generic 15.0.0
nvd gnu binutils generic 2.32
nvd netapp hci management node generic any version
nvd netapp solidfire generic any version

References

URLTags
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00078.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00004.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-24 Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190314-0003/ Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24236 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K42059040 Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/ Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published2019-02-24By the CVE Program.
NVD record modified2026-06-17NVD's own last-modified date for this record.