A security flaw has been discovered in GNU Binutils 2.45. Impacted is the function tg_tag_type of the file prdbg.c. Performing a manipulation results in unchecked return value. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit has been released to the public and may be used for attacks.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - A security flaw has been discovered in GNU Binutils 2.45. Impacted is the function tg_tag_type of the file
    prdbg.c. Performing a manipulation results in unchecked return value. The attack needs to be approached
    locally. The exploit has been released to the public and may be used for attacks. (CVE-2025-11839)

The CentOS Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the TuxCare CENTOS7:CLSA-2026:1786357058 advisory.

  - A security flaw has been discovered in GNU Binutils 2.45. Impacted is the function tg_tag_type of the file     prdbg.c. Performing a manipulation results in unchecked return value. The attack needs to be approached     locally. The exploit has been released to the public and may be used for attacks. (CVE-2025-11839)

  - A weakness has been identified in GNU Binutils 2.45. The affected element is the function vfinfo of the     file ldmisc.c. Executing a manipulation can lead to out-of-bounds read. The attack can only be executed     locally. The exploit has been made available to the public and could be used for attacks. This patch is     called 16357. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue. (CVE-2025-11840)

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

The AlmaLinux 9.6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the TuxCare ALMALINUX9.6:CLSA-2026:1775726631 advisory.

  - A potential heap based buffer overflow was found in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables() in bfd/elf.c. This may     lead to loss of availability. (CVE-2023-1972)

  - A flaw has been found in GNU Binutils 2.45. Impacted is the function _bfd_elf_parse_eh_frame of the file     bfd/elf-eh-frame.c of the component Linker. Executing manipulation can lead to heap-based buffer overflow.
    The attack is restricted to local execution. The exploit has been published and may be used. This patch is     called ea1a0737c7692737a644af0486b71e4a392cbca8. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue. The     code maintainer replied with [f]ixed for 2.46. (CVE-2025-11082)

  - A security flaw has been discovered in GNU Binutils 2.45. Impacted is the function tg_tag_type of the file     prdbg.c. Performing a manipulation results in unchecked return value. The attack needs to be approached     locally. The exploit has been released to the public and may be used for attacks. (CVE-2025-11839)

  - A weakness has been identified in GNU Binutils 2.45. The affected element is the function vfinfo of the     file ldmisc.c. Executing a manipulation can lead to out-of-bounds read. The attack can only be executed     locally. The exploit has been made available to the public and could be used for attacks. This patch is     called 16357. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue. (CVE-2025-11840)

  - A vulnerability has been found in GNU Binutils 2.43/2.44 and classified as problematic. Affected by this     vulnerability is the function display_info of the file binutils/bucomm.c of the component objdump. The     manipulation leads to memory leak. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed     to the public and may be used. The patch is named ba6ad3a18cb26b79e0e3b84c39f707535bbc344d. It is     recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. (CVE-2025-3198)

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

The Rocky Linux 9.6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the TuxCare ALMALINUX9.6:CLSA-2026:1775726631 advisory.

  - A potential heap based buffer overflow was found in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables() in bfd/elf.c. This may     lead to loss of availability. (CVE-2023-1972)

  - A flaw has been found in GNU Binutils 2.45. Impacted is the function _bfd_elf_parse_eh_frame of the file     bfd/elf-eh-frame.c of the component Linker. Executing manipulation can lead to heap-based buffer overflow.
    The attack is restricted to local execution. The exploit has been published and may be used. This patch is     called ea1a0737c7692737a644af0486b71e4a392cbca8. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue. The     code maintainer replied with [f]ixed for 2.46. (CVE-2025-11082)

  - A security flaw has been discovered in GNU Binutils 2.45. Impacted is the function tg_tag_type of the file     prdbg.c. Performing a manipulation results in unchecked return value. The attack needs to be approached     locally. The exploit has been released to the public and may be used for attacks. (CVE-2025-11839)

  - A weakness has been identified in GNU Binutils 2.45. The affected element is the function vfinfo of the     file ldmisc.c. Executing a manipulation can lead to out-of-bounds read. The attack can only be executed     locally. The exploit has been made available to the public and could be used for attacks. This patch is     called 16357. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue. (CVE-2025-11840)

  - A vulnerability has been found in GNU Binutils 2.43/2.44 and classified as problematic. Affected by this     vulnerability is the function display_info of the file binutils/bucomm.c of the component objdump. The     manipulation leads to memory leak. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed     to the public and may be used. The patch is named ba6ad3a18cb26b79e0e3b84c39f707535bbc344d. It is     recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. (CVE-2025-3198)

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

The AlmaLinux 9.2 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the TuxCare ALMALINUX9.2:CLSA-2026:1777949670 advisory.

  - A security flaw has been discovered in GNU Binutils 2.45. Impacted is the function tg_tag_type of the file     prdbg.c. Performing a manipulation results in unchecked return value. The attack needs to be approached     locally. The exploit has been released to the public and may be used for attacks. (CVE-2025-11839)

  - A weakness has been identified in GNU Binutils 2.45. The affected element is the function vfinfo of the     file ldmisc.c. Executing a manipulation can lead to out-of-bounds read. The attack can only be executed     locally. The exploit has been made available to the public and could be used for attacks. This patch is     called 16357. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue. (CVE-2025-11840)

  - A vulnerability has been found in GNU Binutils 2.43/2.44 and classified as problematic. Affected by this     vulnerability is the function display_info of the file binutils/bucomm.c of the component objdump. The     manipulation leads to memory leak. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed     to the public and may be used. The patch is named ba6ad3a18cb26b79e0e3b84c39f707535bbc344d. It is     recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. (CVE-2025-3198)

  - Binutils objdump contains a denial-of-service vulnerability when processing a crafted binary with     malformed DWARF debug information. A logic error in the handling of DWARF compilation units can result in     an invalid offset_size value being used inside byte_get_little_endian, leading to an abort (SIGABRT). The     issue was observed in binutils 2.44. A local attacker can trigger the crash by supplying a malicious input     file. (CVE-2025-69645)

  - GNU Binutils thru 2.46 readelf contains a vulnerability that leads to an abort (SIGABRT) when processing a     crafted ELF binary with malformed DWARF abbrev or debug information. Due to incomplete state cleanup in     process_debug_info(), an invalid debug_info_p state may propagate into DWARF attribute parsing routines.
    When certain malformed attributes result in an unexpected data length of zero, byte_get_little_endian()     triggers a fatal abort. No evidence of memory corruption or code execution was observed; the impact is     limited to denial of service. (CVE-2025-69652)

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

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-099446 advisory.

    A security flaw has been discovered in GNU Binutils 2.45. Impacted is the function tg_tag_type of the file     prdbg.c. Performing manipulation results in unchecked return value. The attack needs to be approached     locally. The exploit has been released to the public and may be exploited.

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

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

An update of the binutils package has been released.

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-fe96f3532b advisory.

    Backport fixes for multiple CVEs.


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 Fedora 43 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-9174e6ea37 advisory.

    Backport fixes for multiple CVEs.

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

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

A security flaw has been discovered in GNU Binutils 2.45. Impacted is the function tg_tag_type of the file prdbg.c. Performing manipulation results in unchecked return value. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit has been released to the public and may be exploited.

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

  - A security flaw has been discovered in GNU Binutils 2.45. Impacted is the function tg_tag_type of the file     prdbg.c. Performing a manipulation results in unchecked return value. The attack needs to be approached     locally. The exploit has been released to the public and may be used for attacks. (CVE-2025-11839)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
462761	Echo: binutils: security update to 2.45.50.20251201-1	Tenable Cloud Security	Echo Local Security Checks	Local	medium
462761	Echo: binutils: security update to 2.45.50.20251201-1	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Echo Local Security Checks	Local	medium
361394	CentOS Linux 7 [TuxCare] Security Update: binutils / binutils-devel Multiple Vulnerabilities (CENTOS7:CLSA-2026:1786357058)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	Local	medium
360888	AlmaLinux 9.6 [TuxCare] Security Update: binutils / binutils-devel / binutils-gold / cross-binutils-aarch64 / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (ALMALINUX9.6:CLSA-2026:1775726631)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	Local	medium
360758	Rocky Linux 9.6 [TuxCare] Security Update: binutils / binutils-devel / binutils-gold / cross-binutils-aarch64 / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (ALMALINUX9.6:CLSA-2026:1775726631)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	Local	medium
359801	AlmaLinux 9.2 [TuxCare] Security Update: binutils / binutils-devel / binutils-gold / cross-binutils-aarch64 / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (ALMALINUX9.2:CLSA-2026:1777949670)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	Local	medium
336240	Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: binutils (UTSA-2026-099446)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	Local	medium
332584	Photon OS 5.0: Binutils PHSA-2025-5.0-91-0670	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	Local	medium
305033	Fedora 42 : mingw-binutils (2026-fe96f3532b)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium
305026	Fedora 43 : mingw-binutils (2026-9174e6ea37)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium
505084	Siemens S7-1500 Unchecked Return Value (CVE-2025-11839)	Tenable OT Security	Tenable.ot	Remote	medium
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	Local	medium
274517	Photon OS 5.0: Binutils PHSA-2025-5.0-0670	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	Local	medium
274414	Photon OS 4.0: Binutils PHSA-2025-4.0-0901	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	Local	medium
271685	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-11839	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium

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