CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2019-14250 — An issue was discovered in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32

Medium CVSS 5.5

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.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.5 (3.1)
Published
2019-07-24
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-190, CWE-787

Affected products

  • gnu / binutils / 2.32
  • canonical / ubuntu_linux / 16.04
  • canonical / ubuntu_linux / 18.04
  • opensuse / leap / 15.0
  • opensuse / leap / 15.1
  • opensuse / leap / 15.2

Matched remediation archetype

Buffer bounds, memory safety, and memory corruption

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Check exposure

  • Identify affected native-code versions, build flags, architectures, parsers, codecs, drivers, and input paths in all shipped artifacts.
  • Determine whether untrusted data reaches the affected routine and the process privilege, sandbox, and network exposure.
  • Confirm statically linked, vendored, firmware, and platform-provided copies, not only package-manager records.

Remediate safely

  • Apply the maintained upstream correction or replace the affected component, then rebuild every dependent artifact from clean inputs.
  • Adopt bounds-checked interfaces, validated sizes and integer conversions, clear ownership, and memory-safe components where practical.
  • Enable supported compiler and runtime hardening and add sanitized tests and fuzz regression seeds derived from non-weaponized fixtures.

Authoritative sources

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