Medium severity · published Feb 11, 2025
CVE-2025-1176
A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43 and classified as critical
5.0
CVSS
0.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function _bfd_elf_gc_mark_rsec of the file elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. The attack may be initiated remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The patch is named f9978defb6fab0bd8583942d97c112b0932ac814. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.7% · higher than 52% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BI
Binutils · Gnu
2.43 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1176
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-1176
Exploit
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=15913
Exploit
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32636
Patch
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=f9978defb6fab0bd8583942d97c112b0932ac814
Permissions Required
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.295079
Permissions Required
https://vuldb.com/?id.295079
Exploit
https://vuldb.com/?submit.495329
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