CVE-2025-1372
A vulnerability was found in GNU elfutils 0.192.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.35%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A vulnerability was found in GNU elfutils 0.192. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function dump_data_section/print_string_section of the file readelf.c of the component eu-readelf. The manipulation of the argument z/x leads to buffer overflow. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of the patch is 73db9d2021cab9e23fd734b0a76a612d52a6f1db. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
- CVSS 4.0
- 4.8 MEDIUMCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/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
- 0.35% probability · 28th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119, CWE-120
- Affected
- elfutils project/elfutils
- Source
- cna@vuldb.com
References
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=15927Exploit
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32656Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32656#c3Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32657Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.295981Permissions Required, VDB Entry
- https://vuldb.com/?id.295981Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://vuldb.com/?submit.496485Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.gnu.org/Product
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.