CVE-2025-11494

low-risk
Published 2025-10-08

A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.45. Impacted is the function _bfd_x86_elf_late_size_sections of the file bfd/elfxx-x86.c of the component Linker. The manipulation results in out-of-bounds read. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit has been made public and could be used. The patch is identified as b6ac5a8a5b82f0ae6a4642c8d7149b325f4cc60a. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.

Do I need to act?

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0.03% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 3.3/10 Low
LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Affected Vendors

Gnu

References (8)

Broken Link https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16389
Exploit https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33499
Exploit https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33499#c2
Patch https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=b6ac5a8a5b82f0ae6a464...
Permissions Required https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.327619
Third Party Advisory https://vuldb.com/?id.327619
Third Party Advisory https://vuldb.com/?submit.668281
Product https://www.gnu.org/
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low-risk
Severity 13/34 · Low
Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal