CVE-2025-5244 | THREATINT

Description

A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils up to 2.44. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function elf_gc_sweep of the file bfd/elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 2.45 is able to address this issue. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Eine kritische Schwachstelle wurde in GNU Binutils bis 2.44 ausgemacht. Es geht hierbei um die Funktion elf_gc_sweep der Datei bfd/elflink.c der Komponente ld. Durch die Manipulation mit unbekannten Daten kann eine memory corruption-Schwachstelle ausgenutzt werden. Der Angriff muss lokal passieren. Der Exploit steht zur öffentlichen Verfügung. Ein Aktualisieren auf die Version 2.45 vermag dieses Problem zu lösen. Als bestmögliche Massnahme wird das Einspielen eines Upgrades empfohlen.

Reserved 2025-05-27 | Published 2025-05-27 | Updated 2025-05-27 | Assigner VulDB

MEDIUM: 4.8CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

MEDIUM: 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

MEDIUM: 5.3CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

4.3AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem types

Memory Corruption

Product status

2.0

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Timeline

2025-05-27:	Advisory disclosed
2025-05-27:	VulDB entry created
2025-05-27:	VulDB entry last update

Credits

lcyf-fizz (VulDB User) reporter

References

vuldb.com/?id.310346 (VDB-310346 | GNU Binutils ld elflink.c elf_gc_sweep memory corruption) vdb-entry technical-description

vuldb.com/?ctiid.310346 (VDB-310346 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, IOA)) signature permissions-required

vuldb.com/?submit.584634 (Submit #584634 | GNU Binutils ld 2.44 Memory Corruption) third-party-advisory

sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32858 issue-tracking

sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16010 exploit

sourceware.org/...h=d1458933830456e54223d9fc61f0d9b3a19256f5 patch

www.gnu.org/ broken-link product

cve.org (CVE-2025-5244)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-5244)

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