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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
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.
Basic Information
ID
CVE-2025-11494
Source
VulDB
Published
Oct 8, 2025 at 19:32
Modified
Oct 8, 2025 at 19:42
Affected Product
Vendor
GNU
Product
Binutils
Version
2.45
Affected Versions
GNU Binutils 2.45