A vulnerability classified as critical was found in GNU Binutils 2.43. This vulnerability affects the function _bfd_elf_gc_mark_rsec of the file bfd/elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. The attack can be initiated 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 name of the patch is 931494c9a89558acb36a03a340c01726545eef24. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.04 / 25.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7899-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that GNU binutils could be forced to perform an out- of-bounds read in certain     instances. An attacker with local access to a system could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of     service. (CVE-2025-11839, CVE-2025-11840)

    It was discovered that GNU binutils incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS,     Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2025-8225)

    It was discovered that GNU binutils incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu     16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2025-5244, CVE-2025-5245)

    It was discovered that GNU binutils incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2025-3198)

    It was discovered that GNU binutils incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to cause a crash. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2025-1182)

    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 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2025-1181)

    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. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 25.04. (CVE-2025-1153)

    It was discovered that GNU binutils incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2025-0840)

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 remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:4096-1 advisory.

    - Do not enable '-z gcs=implicit' on aarch64 for old codestreams.

    Update to version 2.45:

      * New versioned release of libsframe.so.2
      * s390: tools now support SFrame format 2; recognize 'z17' as CPU         name [bsc#1247105, jsc#IBM-1485]
      * sframe sections are now of ELF section type SHT_GNU_SFRAME.
      * sframe secions generated by the assembler have         SFRAME_F_FDE_FUNC_START_PCREL set.
      * riscv: Support more extensions: standard: Zicfiss v1.0, Zicfilp v1.0,         Zcmp v1.0, Zcmt v1.0, Smrnmi v1.0, S[sm]dbltrp v1.0, S[sm]ctr v1.0,         ssqosid v1.0, ssnpm v1.0, smnpm v1.0, smmpm v1.0, sspm v1.0, supm v1.0,         sha v1.0, zce v1.0, smcdeleg v1.0, ssccfg v1.0, svvptc v1.0, zilsd v1.0,         zclsd v1.0, smrnmi v1.0;
        vendor: CORE-V, xcvbitmanip v1.0 and xcvsimd v1.0;
        SiFive, xsfvqmaccdod v1.0, xsfvqmaccqoqv1.0 and xsfvfnrclipxfqf v1.0;
        T-Head: xtheadvdot v1.0;
        MIPS: xmipscbop v1.0, xmipscmov v1.0, xmipsexectl v1.0, xmipslsp v1.0.
      * Support RISC-V privileged version 1.13, profiles 20/22/23, and         .bfloat16 directive.
      * x86: Add support for these ISAs: Intel Diamond Rapids AMX, MOVRS,         AVX10.2 (including SM4), MSR_IMM; Zhaoxin PadLock PHE2, RNG2, GMI, XMODX.
        Drop support for  AVX10.2 256 bit rounding.
      * arm: Add support for most of Armv9.6, enabled by -march=armv9.6-a and         extensions '+cmpbr', '+f8f16mm', '+f8f32mm', '+fprcvt', '+lsfe', '+lsui',         '+occmo', '+pops', '+sme2p2', '+ssve-aes', '+sve-aes', '+sve-aes2',         '+sve-bfscale', '+sve-f16f32mm' and '+sve2p2'.
      * Predefined symbols 'GAS(version)' and, on non-release builds, 'GAS(date)'         are now being made available.
      * Add .errif and .warnif directives.
      * linker:
        - Add --image-base=<ADDR> option to the ELF linker to behave the same           as -Ttext-segment for compatibility with LLD.
        - Add support for mixed LTO and non-LTO codes in relocatable output.
        - s390: linker generates .eh_frame and/or .sframe for linker           generated .plt sections by default (can be disabled           by --no-ld-generated-unwind-info).
        - riscv: add new PLT formats, and GNU property merge rules for zicfiss           and zicfilp extensions.
    - gold is no longer included
    - Contains fixes for these non-CVEs (not security bugs per upstreams SECURITY.md):

      * bsc#1236632 aka CVE-2025-0840 aka PR32650
      * bsc#1236977 aka CVE-2025-1149 aka PR32576
      * bsc#1236978 aka CVE-2025-1148 aka PR32576
      * bsc#1236999 aka CVE-2025-1176 aka PR32636
      * bsc#1237000 aka CVE-2025-1153 aka PR32603
      * bsc#1237001 aka CVE-2025-1152 aka PR32576
      * bsc#1237003 aka CVE-2025-1151 aka PR32576
      * bsc#1237005 aka CVE-2025-1150 aka PR32576
      * bsc#1237018 aka CVE-2025-1178 aka PR32638
      * bsc#1237019 aka CVE-2025-1181 aka PR32643
      * bsc#1237020 aka CVE-2025-1180 aka PR32642
      * bsc#1237021 aka CVE-2025-1179 aka PR32640
      * bsc#1237042 aka CVE-2025-1182 aka PR32644
      * bsc#1240870 aka CVE-2025-3198 aka PR32716
      * bsc#1243756 aka CVE-2025-5244 aka PR32858
      * bsc#1243760 aka CVE-2025-5245 aka PR32829
      * bsc#1246481 aka CVE-2025-7545 aka PR33049
      * bsc#1246486 aka CVE-2025-7546 aka PR33050
      * bsc#1247114 aka CVE-2025-8224 aka PR32109
      * bsc#1247117 aka CVE-2025-8225 no PR
    - Add these backport patches:
      * bsc#1236976 aka CVE-2025-1147 aka PR32556
      * bsc#1250632 aka CVE-2025-11083 aka PR33457
      * bsc#1251275 aka CVE-2025-11412 aka PR33452
      * bsc#1251276 aka CVE-2025-11413 aka PR33456
      * bsc#1251277 aka CVE-2025-11414 aka PR33450
      * bsc#1251794 aka CVE-2025-11494 aka PR33499
      * bsc#1251795 aka CVE-2025-11495 aka PR33502

    - Skip PGO with %want_reproducible_builds (bsc#1040589)
    - Fix crash in assembler with -gdwarf-5
    - aarch64-common-pagesize.patch, aarch64 no longer uses 64K page size
    - Add -std=gnu17 to move gcc15 forward, as temporary measure until       the binutils version can be updated [bsc#1241916].

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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 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 classified as critical was found in GNU Binutils 2.43. This vulnerability affects the     function _bfd_elf_gc_mark_rsec of the file bfd/elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to     memory corruption. The attack can be initiated 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     name of the patch is 931494c9a89558acb36a03a340c01726545eef24. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix     this issue. (CVE-2025-1181)

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-2025-1181 advisory.

  - A vulnerability classified as critical was found in GNU Binutils 2.43. This vulnerability affects the     function _bfd_elf_gc_mark_rsec of the file bfd/elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to     memory corruption. The attack can be initiated 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     name of the patch is 931494c9a89558acb36a03a340c01726545eef24. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix     this issue. (CVE-2025-1181)

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-2025-1181 advisory.

  - A vulnerability classified as critical was found in GNU Binutils 2.43. This vulnerability affects the     function _bfd_elf_gc_mark_rsec of the file bfd/elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to     memory corruption. The attack can be initiated 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     name of the patch is 931494c9a89558acb36a03a340c01726545eef24. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix     this issue. (CVE-2025-1181)

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
276991	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.04 / 25.10 : GNU binutils vulnerabilities (USN-7899-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
275490	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : binutils (SUSE-SU-2025:4096-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
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
232130	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-1181	Nessus	Misc.	medium
216784	Azure Linux 3.0 Security Update: binutils (CVE-2025-1181)	Nessus	Azure Linux Local Security Checks	low
216364	CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: binutils (CVE-2025-1181)	Nessus	MarinerOS Local Security Checks	low

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