🛡️ CVE-2025-8225 on BellSoft — binutils

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV

N/A

CVSS Score

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Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2025-8225 as tracked by BellSoft, for the package binutils. The fix is available in version 2.45-r0; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability low.

Weakness class

BELL-CVE-2025-8225 is classified as CWE-401: Memory Leak. Allocated memory is never released, so long-running or repeated operations gradually exhaust it.

Affected software

BELL-CVE-2025-8225 is recorded against 1 package.

binutils (from 2.40-r4 up to 2.45-r0)

Timeline and source

Published on 29 July 2025 and last revised on 26 January 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

docs.bell-sw.com (Advisory)

CVE-2025-8225 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Alpine Base record Debian Debian 12 (Root.io)Ubuntu

Details

Severity Unknown

CVSS Score N/A

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

CWE N/A

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source OSV

Published 2025-07-29

Updated 2026-08-12

Modified 2026-01-26

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
binutils	2.40-r4	2.45-r0

References

ADVISORY https://docs.bell-sw.com/security/cves/CVE-2025-8225

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