CVE-2025-5244CWE-119

CVE-2025-5244

Medium · published May 27, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
19.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

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
0.00284 · 19.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-119 · Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Published
2025-05-27T17:15Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
gnu/binutils< 2.452.45
References (9)
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16010 · [email protected]https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32858 · [email protected]https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=d1458933830456e54223d9fc61f0d9b3a19256f5 · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.310346 · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/?id.310346 · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/?submit.584634 · [email protected]https://www.gnu.org/ · [email protected]https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html · 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5ehttps://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-265688.html · 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 MAY 13:00Z
    GNU Binutils ld elflink.c elf_gc_sweep memory corruption
    cvelistv5