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CVE-2025-11494

Published: Oct 8, 2025

Modified: May 12, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

3.3

LOW

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
GNU	Binutils	affected `2.45`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Low

References

VDB-327619 | GNU Binutils Linker elfxx-x86.c _bfd_x86_elf_late_size_sections out-of-bounds

vdb-entry

technical-description

VDB-327619 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, IOA)

signature

permissions-required

Submit #668281 | GNU Binutils 2.45 Out-of-Bounds Read

third-party-advisory

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33499

issue-tracking

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33499#c2

issue-tracking

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16389

exploit

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=b6ac5a8a5b82f0ae6a4642c8d7149b325f4cc60a

patch

https://www.gnu.org/

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