VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2025-5244
A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils up to 2.44.
MEDIUM 4.8EPSS 0.28%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.28%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils up to 2.44. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function elf_gc_sweep of the file bfd/elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 2.45 is able to address this issue. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.
- 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
- 0.28% probability · 20th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- gnu/binutils
- Source
- cna@vuldb.com
References
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16010Broken Link
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32858Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=d1458933830456e54223d9fc61f0d9b3a19256f5Patch
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.310346Permissions Required, VDB Entry
- https://vuldb.com/?id.310346Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://vuldb.com/?submit.584634Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.gnu.org/Product
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-265688.html
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.