CVE-2025-1176

Publication date 11 February 2025

Last updated 30 April 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
binutils	25.04 plucky	Needs evaluation
	24.10 oracular	Fixed 2.43.1-4ubuntu1.2
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 2.42-4ubuntu2.5
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2.38-4ubuntu2.8
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2.34-6ubuntu1.11
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.9+esm4 Ubuntu Pro
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm11 Ubuntu Pro
	14.04 LTS trusty	Needs evaluation

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Notes

seth-arnold

binutils isn't safe for untrusted inputs.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.0 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L