VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2025-11494
A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.45.
LOW 1.9EPSS 0.21%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.21%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.45. Impacted is the function _bfd_x86_elf_late_size_sections of the file bfd/elfxx-x86.c of the component Linker. The manipulation results in out-of-bounds read. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit has been made public and could be used. The patch is identified as b6ac5a8a5b82f0ae6a4642c8d7149b325f4cc60a. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.
- CVSS 4.0
- 1.9 LOWCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
- EPSS
- 0.21% probability · 12th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119, CWE-125
- Affected
- gnu/binutils
- Source
- cna@vuldb.com
References
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16389Broken Link
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33499Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33499#c2Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=b6ac5a8a5b82f0ae6a4642c8d7149b325f4cc60aPatch
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.327619Permissions Required, VDB Entry
- https://vuldb.com/?id.327619Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://vuldb.com/?submit.668281Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.gnu.org/Product
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.