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alsa-2025:23382

Vulnerability from osv_almalinux

Published

2025-12-16 00:00

Modified

2025-12-22 14:14

Summary

Moderate: binutils security update

Details

The binutils packages provide a collection of binary utilities for the manipulation of object code in various object file formats. It includes the ar, as, gprof, ld, nm, objcopy, objdump, ranlib, readelf, size, strings, strip, and addr2line utilities.

Security Fix(es):

binutils: GNU Binutils Linker heap-based overflow (CVE-2025-11083)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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  "id": "ALSA-2025:23382",
  "modified": "2025-12-22T14:14:14Z",
  "published": "2025-12-16T00:00:00Z",
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      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:23382"
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      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2399948"
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CVE-2025-11083 (GCVE-0-2025-11083)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-27 23:02 – Updated: 2025-09-29 14:55 X_Open Source

Title

GNU Binutils Linker elfcode.h elf_swap_shdr heap-based overflow

Summary

A vulnerability has been found in GNU Binutils 2.45. The affected element is the function elf_swap_shdr in the library bfd/elfcode.h of the component Linker. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. The attack must be carried out locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of the patch is 9ca499644a21ceb3f946d1c179c38a83be084490. To fix this issue, it is recommended to deploy a patch. The code maintainer replied with "[f]ixed for 2.46".

Severity ?

4.8 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CWE

CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
CWE-119 - Memory Corruption

Assigner

VulDB

References

URL

Tags

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	https://vuldb.com/?submit.661277	third-party-advisory
	https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33457	issue-tracking
	https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3…	issue-tracking
	https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16353	exploit
	https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-…	patch
	https://www.gnu.org/	product

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	GNU	Binutils	Affected: 2.45

Credits

JJLeo (VulDB User)

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

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