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.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 5.5 · gnu, canonical, opensuseNVD modified 2026-10-08 21:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 6
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 24
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00056.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00057.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00058.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- 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
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/109354 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90924 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2019-07/msg01003.html Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-39 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190822-0002/ Broken Link
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/ Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00056.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00057.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00058.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- 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
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/109354 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90924 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2019-07/msg01003.html Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-39 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190822-0002/ Broken Link
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/ Third Party Advisory