fkie_cve-2025-11840
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-10-16 16:15
Modified
2025-10-23 19:41
Severity ?
3.3 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A weakness has been identified in GNU Binutils 2.45. The affected element is the function vfinfo of the file ldmisc.c. Executing manipulation can lead to out-of-bounds read. The attack can only be executed locally. The exploit has been made available to the public and could be exploited. This patch is called 16357. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue.
References
cna@vuldb.comhttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16351Exploit
cna@vuldb.comhttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16357Not Applicable
cna@vuldb.comhttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33455Exploit, Issue Tracking
cna@vuldb.comhttps://vuldb.com/?ctiid.328775Permissions Required, VDB Entry
cna@vuldb.comhttps://vuldb.com/?id.328775Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cna@vuldb.comhttps://vuldb.com/?submit.661281Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cna@vuldb.comhttps://www.gnu.org/Product
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
gnu binutils 2.45


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