Bug 1214777 (CVE-2020-19724) - VUL-0: CVE-2020-19724: binutils: memory leak in get_data() in nm.c
Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2020-19724: binutils: memory leak in get_data() in nm.c
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2020-19724
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P3 - Medium : Normal
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Assignee: Michael Matz
QA Contact: Security Team bot
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/375952/
Whiteboard: CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2020-19724:3.3:(AV:...
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Reported: 2023-08-30 07:59 UTC by Robert Frohl
Modified: 2023-10-12 08:49 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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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