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.

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7847-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that GNU binutils incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code. The attack is restricted to local execution.
    (CVE-2025-11082)

    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. (CVE-2025-11083, CVE-2025-5244, CVE-2025-5245,     CVE-2025-7554)

    It was discovered that GNU binutils incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to cause crash, execute arbitrary code or expose sensitive information. (CVE-2025-1147)

    It was discovered that GNU binutils incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2025-1148, CVE-2025-3198, CVE-2025-8225

    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 25.04. (CVE-2025-1182)

    It was discovered that GNU binutils incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to execute arbritrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 25.04 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2025-7546)

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.

An update of the binutils package has been released.

According to the versions of the binutils package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

    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)

    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.(CVE-2025-5244)

    A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in GNU Binutils up to 2.44. This affects the     function debug_type_samep of the file /binutils/debug.c of the component objdump. The manipulation leads     to memory corruption. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has been disclosed to     the public and may be used. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.(CVE-2025-5245)

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

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

According to the versions of the binutils package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

    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.(CVE-2025-5244)

    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)

    A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in GNU Binutils up to 2.44. This affects the     function debug_type_samep of the file /binutils/debug.c of the component objdump. The manipulation leads     to memory corruption. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has been disclosed to     the public and may be used. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.(CVE-2025-5245)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS binutils 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 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. (CVE-2025-5244)

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

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-2025-5244 advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2025-5244)

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 Azure Linux 3.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2025-5244 advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2025-5244)

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
272033	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.04 : GNU binutils vulnerabilities (USN-7847-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
271367	Photon OS 4.0: Binutils PHSA-2025-4.0-0893	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	medium
271247	Photon OS 5.0: Binutils PHSA-2025-5.0-0651	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	medium
264866	EulerOS 2.0 SP13 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2025-2132)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
264851	EulerOS 2.0 SP13 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2025-2142)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
264476	EulerOS 2.0 SP12 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2025-2000)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
264402	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2025-2062)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
261880	EulerOS 2.0 SP12 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2025-2031)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
261850	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2025-2090)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
249290	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2025-1921)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
249277	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2025-1947)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
246210	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-5244	Nessus	Misc.	medium
241905	CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: binutils (CVE-2025-5244)	Nessus	MarinerOS Local Security Checks	medium
241893	Azure Linux 3.0 Security Update: binutils (CVE-2025-5244)	Nessus	Azure Linux Local Security Checks	medium

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