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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-11494

medium Nessus Plugin ID 270211

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

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 2.45. Impacted is the function _bfd_x86_elf_late_size_sections of the file bfd/elfxx-x86.c of the component Linker. The manipulation results in out-of-bounds read. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit has been made public and could be used. The patch is identified as b6ac5a8a5b82f0ae6a4642c8d7149b325f4cc60a. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.
 (CVE-2025-11494)

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

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2025-11494

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-11494

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-11494

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 270211

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2025_11494.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 10/13/2025

Updated: 10/27/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-11494

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 3.1

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:U/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Threat Score: 1.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gdb, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw-binutils-generic, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gcc-toolset-14-gdb, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:binutils-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:binutils-gold, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:13.0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gdb-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gcc-toolset-14-binutils-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gdb-gdbserver, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gcc-toolset-13-binutils, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gcc-toolset-14-binutils-gprofng, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gcc-toolset-14-binutils-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gdb-headless, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gdb, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:binutils, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gcc-toolset-15-binutils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gcc-toolset-14-binutils, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gdb-minimal, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:binutils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw64-binutils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gcc-toolset-14-binutils-gold, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gcc-toolset-13-binutils-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gdb-headless, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw32-binutils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gcc-toolset-13-binutils, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gcc-toolset-13-gdb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gcc-toolset-15-binutils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gcc-toolset-14-binutils-gprofng, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:14.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gcc-toolset-13-gdb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw-binutils-generic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:binutils, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gcc-toolset-13-binutils-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw-binutils, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gdb-minimal, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gcc-toolset-14-binutils, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gcc-toolset-14-binutils-gold, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw64-binutils, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gdb-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:binutils, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:binutils-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gcc-toolset-14-gdb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gdb-gdbserver, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gcc-toolset-13-binutils-gold, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.10, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:binutils-gold, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw32-binutils, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gcc-toolset-13-binutils-gold, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw-binutils

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/8/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-11494