A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function bfd_putl64 of the file libbfd.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. The attack can be launched remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of the patch is 75086e9de1707281172cc77f178e7949a4414ed0. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7423-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that GNU binutils incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause a crash, expose sensitive information or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2025-1153,     CVE-2025-1182)

    It was discovered that ld in GNU binutils incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2025-1176)

    It was discovered that ld in GNU binutils incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to cause a crash, expose sensitive information or execute arbitrary code. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 24.10. (CVE-2025-1178, CVE-2025-1181)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this     vulnerability is the function bfd_putl64 of the file libbfd.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads     to memory corruption. The attack can be launched remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The     exploitation appears to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The     identifier of the patch is 75086e9de1707281172cc77f178e7949a4414ed0. It is recommended to apply a patch to     fix this issue. (CVE-2025-1178)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The version of binutils installed on the remote Azure Linux 3.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2025-1178 advisory.

  - A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this     vulnerability is the function bfd_putl64 of the file libbfd.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads     to memory corruption. The attack can be launched remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The     exploitation appears to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and May be used. The     identifier of the patch is 75086e9de1707281172cc77f178e7949a4414ed0. It is recommended to apply a patch to     fix this issue. (CVE-2025-1178)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of binutils installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2025-1178 advisory.

  - A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this     vulnerability is the function bfd_putl64 of the file libbfd.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads     to memory corruption. The attack can be launched remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The     exploitation appears to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and May be used. The     identifier of the patch is 75086e9de1707281172cc77f178e7949a4414ed0. It is recommended to apply a patch to     fix this issue. (CVE-2025-1178)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
233981	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 : GNU binutils vulnerabilities (USN-7423-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
230756	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-1178	Nessus	Misc.	medium
216782	Azure Linux 3.0 Security Update: binutils (CVE-2025-1178)	Nessus	Azure Linux Local Security Checks	medium
216665	CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: binutils (CVE-2025-1178)	Nessus	MarinerOS Local Security Checks	medium

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