CVE-2025-11840

medium

Description

A weakness has been identified in GNU Binutils 2.45. The affected element is the function vfinfo of the file ldmisc.c. Executing 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 exploited. This patch is called 16357. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue.

References

https://vuldb.com/?submit.661281

https://vuldb.com/?id.328775

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16351

https://www.gnu.org/

https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.328775

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33455

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16357

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-10-16

Updated: 2025-10-23

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