CVE-2025-11494

Low

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.

SeverityLow
CVSS3.3
Exploit probability—
ProductGnu Binutils
PublishedOct 8, 2025
First seenOct 8, 2025

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ProductAffected versionsFixed in
gnu binutils2.45—

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