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RHEL 10 : binutils (RHSA-2025:20155)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 274766

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for binutils.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:20155 advisory.

 The binutils packages provide a collection of binary utilities for the manipulation of object code in various object file formats. It includes the ar, as, gprof, ld, nm, objcopy, objdump, ranlib, readelf, size, strings, strip, and addr2line utilities.

 Security Fix(es):

 * binutils: GNU Binutils ld elflink.c elf_gc_sweep memory corruption (CVE-2025-5244)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

 Additional Changes:

 For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the RHEL binutils package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:20155.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?212075ce

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2368763

http://www.nessus.org/u?efb58024

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:20155

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 274766

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-20155.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/11/2025

Updated: 11/11/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-5244

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:binutils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:binutils-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:binutils-gold

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/11/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/27/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-5244

CWE: 119

RHSA: 2025:20155