CVE-2025-5244

medium

Description

A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils up to 2.44. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function elf_gc_sweep of the file bfd/elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 2.45 is able to address this issue. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

References

https://vuldb.com/?submit.584634

https://vuldb.com/?id.310346

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16010

https://www.gnu.org/

https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.310346

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=d1458933830456e54223d9fc61f0d9b3a19256f5

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32858

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-265688.html

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-05-27

Updated: 2026-05-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

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

Severity: High

CVSS v4

Base Score: 4.8

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00015