CVE-2025-8225 | THREATINT

Description

A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.44 and classified as problematic. This issue affects the function process_debug_info of the file binutils/dwarf.c of the component DWARF Section Handler. The manipulation leads to memory leak. Attacking locally is a requirement. The identifier of the patch is e51fdff7d2e538c0e5accdd65649ac68e6e0ddd4. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

Eine problematische Schwachstelle wurde in GNU Binutils 2.44 gefunden. Betroffen davon ist die Funktion process_debug_info der Datei binutils/dwarf.c der Komponente DWARF Section Handler. Dank Manipulation mit unbekannten Daten kann eine memory leak-Schwachstelle ausgenutzt werden. Umgesetzt werden muss der Angriff lokal. Der Patch wird als e51fdff7d2e538c0e5accdd65649ac68e6e0ddd4 bezeichnet. Als bestmögliche Massnahme wird Patching empfohlen.

Reserved 2025-07-26 | Published 2025-07-27 | Updated 2025-07-27 | Assigner VulDB

MEDIUM: 4.8CVSS: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

LOW: 3.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

LOW: 3.3CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

1.7AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C

Problem types

Memory Leak

Denial of Service

Product status

2.44

affected

Timeline

2025-07-26:	Advisory disclosed
2025-07-26:	VulDB entry created
2025-07-26:	VulDB entry last update

Credits

arthurx (VulDB User) reporter

References

vuldb.com/?id.317813 (VDB-317813 | GNU Binutils DWARF Section dwarf.c process_debug_info memory leak) vdb-entry technical-description

vuldb.com/?ctiid.317813 (VDB-317813 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, IOA)) signature permissions-required

vuldb.com/?submit.621883 (Submit #621883 | GNU Binutils 2.44 Memory Leak) third-party-advisory

gitlab.com/...ommit/e51fdff7d2e538c0e5accdd65649ac68e6e0ddd4 patch

www.gnu.org/ product

cve.org (CVE-2025-8225)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-8225)

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