CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.
CVE
CVE-2019-12972
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.5
EPSS
1.80%
Original NVD Description
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.
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