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CVE-2025-11494 MEDIUM

Published: 2025-10-08 | Last Modified: 2026-05-12 | Status: Modified

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.

CVSS Metrics

Base Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)

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

Attack VectorLOCAL
Attack ComplexityLOW
Privileges RequiredLOW
User InteractionNONE
ScopeUNCHANGED
Confidentiality ImpactNONE
Integrity ImpactNONE
Availability ImpactHIGH

Source: [email protected]

Type: Primary

Exploitability Score: 1.8

Impact Score: 3.6

Base Score: 1.7 (LOW)

AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access VectorLOCAL
Access ComplexityLOW
AuthenticationSINGLE
Confidentiality ImpactNONE
Integrity ImpactNONE
Availability ImpactPARTIAL

Source: [email protected]

Type: Secondary

Exploitability Score: 3.1

Impact Score: 2.9

Base Score: 1.9 (LOW)

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/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack VectorLOCAL
Attack ComplexityLOW
Attack RequirementsNONE
Privileges RequiredLOW
User InteractionNONE
Vulnerability ConfidentialityNONE
Vulnerability IntegrityNONE
Vulnerability AvailabilityLOW
Subsequent ConfidentialityNONE
Subsequent IntegrityNONE
Subsequent AvailabilityNONE

Source: [email protected]

Type: Secondary

Weaknesses

Source Type Description
[email protected] Secondary
en CWE-119
en CWE-125
[email protected] Primary
en CWE-125

Affected Products

Vendor Product Version Update Type
gnu binutils 2.45 <built-in method update of dict object at 0x702b70374480> Application

Affected Configurations

Operator: OR

Vulnerable CPE
Yes cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.45:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Notification
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