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CVE-2025-5244

MEDIUM

5.3

Description

A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils up to 2.44. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function elf_gc_sweep of the file bfd/elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 2.45 is able to address this issue. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score5.3

SeverityMEDIUM

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredLOW

User InteractionNONE

Published5/27/2025

Last Modified10/3/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

gnu:binutils

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-119

References

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16010(cna@vuldb.com)

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32858(cna@vuldb.com)

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=d1458933830456e54223d9fc61f0d9b3a19256f5(cna@vuldb.com)

https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.310346(cna@vuldb.com)

https://vuldb.com/?id.310346(cna@vuldb.com)

https://vuldb.com/?submit.584634(cna@vuldb.com)

https://www.gnu.org/(cna@vuldb.com)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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