Description
A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function _bfd_elf_gc_mark_rsec of the file elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. The attack may be initiated remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The patch is named f9978defb6fab0bd8583942d97c112b0932ac814. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
References (8)
Core 8
Core References
Vendor Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250411-0007/
Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory vdb-entry
technical-description
https://vuldb.com/?id.295079
Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory signature
permissions-required
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.295079
Exploit, Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory
https://vuldb.com/?submit.495329
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch issue-tracking
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32636
Exploit exploit
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=15913
Patch patch
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=f9978defb6fab0bd8583942d97c112b0932ac814
Product product
https://www.gnu.org/
Scores
CVSS v3
5.0
EPSS
0.0021
EPSS Percentile
43.7%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-119
CWE-122
Status
published
Products (1)
gnu/binutils
2.43
Published
Feb 11, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026