CVE-2025-11083CWE-119CWE-122

CVE-2025-11083

Medium · published September 28, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
16.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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".

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00261 · 16.9th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-119 · Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer; CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Published
2025-09-28T03:15Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
gnu/binutilsall versions—
References (11)
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16353 · [email protected]https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33457 · [email protected]https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33457#c1 · [email protected]https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=9ca499644a21ceb3f946d1c179c38a83be084490 · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.326124 · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/?id.326124 · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/?submit.661277 · [email protected]https://www.gnu.org/ · [email protected]https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html · 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5ehttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33457 · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33457#c1 · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 SEP 23:02Z
    GNU Binutils Linker elfcode.h elf_swap_shdr heap-based overflow
    cvelistv5