CVE-2025-7545

low

Description

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in GNU Binutils 2.45. Affected by this vulnerability is the function copy_section of the file binutils/objcopy.c. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The patch is named 08c3cbe5926e4d355b5cb70bbec2b1eeb40c2944. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

References

https://vuldb.com/?submit.614355

https://vuldb.com/?id.316243

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16117

https://www.gnu.org/

https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.316243

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=08c3cbe5926e4d355b5cb70bbec2b1eeb40c2944

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33049#c1

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33049

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-07-13

Updated: 2025-07-30

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: 1.9

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: Low

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00013