Bug 1214777 (CVE-2020-19724)

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2020-19724: binutils: memory leak in get_data() in nm.c
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	Robert Frohl <rfrohl>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	Michael Matz <matz>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	security-team
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/375952/
Whiteboard:	CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2020-19724:3.3:(AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
Found By:	Security Response Team	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Robert Frohl 2023-08-30 07:59:04 UTC

CVE-2020-19724

A memory consumption issue in get_data function in binutils/nm.c in GNU nm
before 2.34 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted command.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2020-19724
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2233930
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-19724
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25362
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=805f38bc551de820bcd7b31d3c5731ae27cf853a

Comment 1 Michael Matz 2023-09-04 15:01:42 UTC

I think we aren't affected then.  Both, SLE-12 and SLE-15-SP1 (:Update) are newer
than 2.34.

Comment 3 Robert Frohl 2023-10-12 08:49:17 UTC

closing, does not affect us