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Oracle Linux 10 : binutils (ELSA-2025-23306)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 279467

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2025-23306 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-11082
 - CVE-2025-11083 Reviewed-by: David Faust <[email protected]> Oracle history:
 September-29-2025 David Faust <[email protected]> - 2.41-58.0.1
 - Forward-port Oracle patches to 2.41-58.
 Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <[email protected]> August-29-2025 Bruce McCulloch <[email protected]> - 2.41-57.0.1
 - Forward-port Oracle patches to 2.41-57.
 Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <[email protected]> Jun-04-2025 Bruce McCulloch <[email protected]> - 2.41-53.0.3
 - Add binutils-orabug-38018827.patch.
 - Fix ctf_dict_open clobbering errno.
 - Backport of upstream commit:
 - 14303d6295e libctf: archive, open: when opening, always set errp to something.
 - [Orabug: 38018827]
 - Add binutils-orabug-38018828.patch.
 - In kernel links, properly hide CTF types only if conflicting.
 - Backport of upstream commits:
 - 75e514cfa56 Revert 'libctf: fix linking of non-root-visible types'
 - 002957be18e libctf: dedup: improve hiding of conflicting types in the same dict
 - [Orabug: 38018828] Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Nick Alcock <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Elena Zannoni <[email protected]> May-28-2025 Vladimir Mezentsev <[email protected]> - 2.41-53.0.2
 - Backported updates for gprofng.
 Reviewed-by: Bruce McCulloch <[email protected]> April-02-2025 Bruce McCulloch <[email protected]> - 2.41-53.0.1
 - Merge Oracle patches to 2.41-53.
 Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <[email protected]> November-28-2024 Nick Alcock <[email protected]> - 2.41-45.0.1
 - Latest CTF changes from upstream
 - add ctf_dict_set_flag, ctf_lookup_enumerator, ctf_lookup_enumerator_next, ctf_arc_lookup_enumerator_next; consider enums with differing enumerators to be conflicting
 - add documentation to ctf-api.h
 - allow modification of ctf_opened dicts and opening of foreign- endian older dicts
 - looking up types by name prefers non-bitfields if possible
 - bugfixes to parent propagation, rewriting of existing dicts, ctf_archive_count, CU-mapped links, and dumping and linking of non-root-visible types.
 - fix a bunch of small leaks and one big one (on ctf_open error)
 - fix a write into freed memory after ctf_rollback and writeout
 - internal improvements to serialization, name lookup, symbol lookup, string handling, and more
 - explicitly disable zstd support (enabling requires addition of zstd to the .so scripts)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2025-23306.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 279467

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2025-23306.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/20/2025

Updated: 12/20/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2025-11083

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: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:binutils, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:binutils-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:binutils-gold, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:10, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:10:1:baseos_patch, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:binutils-gprofng

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/19/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/27/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-11082, CVE-2025-11083

IAVA: 2025-A-0890