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Vulnerability details: VCID-2f7d-36ey-g3am
Vulnerability ID VCID-2f7d-36ey-g3am
Aliases CVE-2019-17450
Summary find_abstract_instance in dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and application crash) via a crafted ELF file.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 5.9
Risk 3.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion
CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow
System Score Found at
cvssv3 5.5 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2019-17450.json
epss 0.01033 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-17450
epss 0.01033 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-17450
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epss 0.01033 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-17450
epss 0.01033 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-17450
epss 0.01033 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-17450
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epss 0.01033 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-17450
epss 0.01033 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-17450
epss 0.01033 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-17450
epss 0.01033 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-17450
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epss 0.0104 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-17450
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epss 0.0104 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-17450
cvssv3.1 3.3 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv2 4.3 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17450
cvssv3.1 6.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17450
Reference id Reference type URL
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00078.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00004.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2019-17450.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-17450
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-17450
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-39
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191024-0002/
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25078
1771677 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1771677
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.32:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2019-17450 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17450
RHSA-2020:4465 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4465
USN-4336-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
USN-4336-2 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-2/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2019-17450.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17450
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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functional

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not_defined

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17450
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.76454
EPSS Score 0.01033
Published At July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:37:42.833489+00:00 Ubuntu USN Importer Import https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/ 37.0.0