CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-1179
2.3 LOW
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-02-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 2.3 LOW — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/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
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.1 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function bfd_putl64 of the file bfd/libbfd.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. The attack may be launched 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. Upgrading to version 2.44 is able to address this issue. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The code maintainer explains, that "[t]his bug has been fixed at some point between the 2.43 and 2.44 releases".
Affected configurations
• gnu binutils 2.43
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=15915 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32640 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32640#c1 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.295082 Permissions Required, VDB Entry
- https://vuldb.com/?id.295082 Permissions Required, VDB Entry
- https://vuldb.com/?submit.495376 Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.gnu.org/ Product