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.
References (8)
Core 8
Core References
Product product
https://www.gnu.org/
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
technical-description
https://vuldb.com/?id.327619
Permissions Required, VDB Entry signature
permissions-required
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.327619
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry third-party-advisory
https://vuldb.com/?submit.668281
Exploit, Issue Tracking issue-tracking
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33499
Exploit, Issue Tracking issue-tracking
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33499#c2
Broken Link exploit
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16389
Scores
CVSS v3
3.3
EPSS
0.0003
EPSS Percentile
9.9%
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 08, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026