A memory leak issue was discovered in bfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. In _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols function in syms.c, the is a heap allocation. But this heap allocation didn't deallocate in the end. PR: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=c2f5dc30afa34696f2da0081c4ac50b958ecb0e9 @maintainer(s): Fixed on master, Milestone is 2.32 release. Gentoo Security Padawan (domhnall)
will be in 2.31.1 patchlevel 6
All affected versions are gone or masked. @security please proceed.
This issue was resolved and addressed in GLSA 201908-01 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01 by GLSA coordinator Aaron Bauman (b-man).