CVE-2025-1176
A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43 and classified as critical.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.68%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function _bfd_elf_gc_mark_rsec of the file elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. The attack may be initiated remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The patch is named f9978defb6fab0bd8583942d97c112b0932ac814. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
- CVSS 4.0
- 2.3 LOWCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
- EPSS
- 0.68% probability · 50th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119, CWE-122
- Affected
- gnu/binutils
- Source
- cna@vuldb.com
References
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=15913Exploit
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32636Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=f9978defb6fab0bd8583942d97c112b0932ac814Patch
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.295079Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://vuldb.com/?id.295079Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://vuldb.com/?submit.495329Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.gnu.org/Product
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250411-0007/
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.