It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2025-956 advisory.

    A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function
    _bfd_elf_gc_mark_rsec of the file elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to heap-based     buffer overflow. The attack may be initiated remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The     exploitation is known to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The     patch is named f9978defb6fab0bd8583942d97c112b0932ac814. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this     issue. (CVE-2025-1176)

    A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in GNU Binutils 2.43. Affected is the     function bfd_elf_reloc_symbol_deleted_p of the file bfd/elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation     leads to memory corruption. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The complexity of an attack is     rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and     may be used. The patch is identified as b425859021d17adf62f06fb904797cf8642986ad. It is recommended to     apply a patch to fix this issue. (CVE-2025-1182)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

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

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Amazon Linux 2023 : binutils, binutils-devel, binutils-gprofng (ALAS2023-2025-956)

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