Description
A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.45. Affected is the function elf_link_add_object_symbols of the file bfd/elflink.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. Upgrading to version 2.46 is able to address this issue. The patch is identified as 72efdf166aa0ed72ecc69fc2349af6591a7a19c0. Upgrading the affected component is advised.
References (9)
Core 9
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
technical-description
https://vuldb.com/?id.327349
Permissions Required, VDB Entry signature
permissions-required
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.327349
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry third-party-advisory
https://vuldb.com/?submit.665587
Permissions Required, VDB Entry third-party-advisory
https://vuldb.com/?submit.665590
Exploit, Issue Tracking issue-tracking
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33452
Exploit, Issue Tracking issue-tracking
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33456#c10
Broken Link exploit
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16362
Patch patch
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=72efdf166aa0ed72ecc69fc2349af6591a7a19c0
Product product
https://www.gnu.org/
Scores
CVSS v3
3.3
EPSS
0.0003
EPSS Percentile
6.9%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-119
CWE-125
Status
published
Products (1)
gnu/binutils
2.45
Published
Oct 07, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026