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Alpine: multiple binutils packages: security update to 2.44-r2

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 428352

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

 - A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in GNU Binutils 2.43/2.44. Affected by this
 vulnerability is the function bfd_set_format of the file format.c. The manipulation leads to memory
 corruption. The attack can be launched remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The
 exploitation appears to be difficult. Upgrading to version 2.45 is able to address this issue. The
 identifier of the patch is 8d97c1a53f3dc9fd8e1ccdb039b8a33d50133150. It is recommended to upgrade the
 affected component. (CVE-2025-1153)

 - 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)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-1153

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-3198

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 428352

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Published: 7/11/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.24

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-1153

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Threat Score: 1.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-3198

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/10/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-1153, CVE-2025-3198

IAVA: 2025-A-0095