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CVE-2019-14250

Publication date 24 July 2019

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

An issue was discovered in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. simple_object_elf_match in simple-object-elf.c does not check for a zero shstrndx value, leading to an integer overflow and resultant heap-based buffer overflow.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
binutils 24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
21.10 impish
Not affected
21.04 hirsute
Not affected
20.10 groovy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
19.10 eoan
Not affected
19.04 disco Ignored
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3
16.04 LTS xenial
14.04 LTS trusty
Vulnerable
libiberty 24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
21.10 impish
Not affected
21.04 hirsute
Not affected
20.10 groovy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
19.10 eoan
Not affected
19.04 disco Ignored
18.10 cosmic Ignored
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 20170913-1ubuntu0.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 20160215-1ubuntu0.3
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-4336-1
    • GNU binutils vulnerabilities
    • 22 April 2020
    • USN-4326-1
    • libiberty vulnerabilities
    • 8 April 2020
    • USN-4336-2
    • GNU binutils vulnerabilities
    • 21 July 2021

Other references