What is CVE-2019-9073?

CVE-2019-9073 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GNU Binutils, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-02-24.

How severe is CVE-2019-9073?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in GNU Binutils

CVE-2019-9073

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. It is an attempted excessive memory allocation in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables in elf.c.

Published 2019-02-24 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.011 (64.3th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 64th percentile — 64.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190314-0003/ (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
support.f5.com/csp/article/K37121474 (Third Party Advisory)
usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/ (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-24 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-9073?: CVE-2019-9073 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GNU Binutils, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-02-24.
How severe is CVE-2019-9073?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.