CVE-2025-11494

medium

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

https://vuldb.com/?submit.668281

https://vuldb.com/?id.327619

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16389

https://www.gnu.org/

https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.327619

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

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33499#c2

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33499

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-10-08

Updated: 2025-10-14

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00013