CVE-2025-11494

LOW

GNU Binutils - Memory Corruption

Title source: rule

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)

[Product] https://www.gnu.org/

[Broken Link] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16389

[Exploit, Issue Tracking] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33499

[Exploit, Issue Tracking] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33499#c2

[Patch] https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=b6ac5a8a5b82f0ae6a4642c8d7149b325f4cc60a

[Permissions Required, VDB Entry] https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.327619

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://vuldb.com/?id.327619

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://vuldb.com/?submit.668281

Scores

CVSS v3 3.3

EPSS 0.0002

EPSS Percentile 6.2%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Classification

CWE

CWE-119 CWE-125

Status published

Affected Products (1)

gnu/binutils

Timeline

Published Oct 08, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026