🛡️ CVE-2025-1152 — binutils

🟢 CVSS 3.1 — Low ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-401 NVD

3.1

CVSS Score

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Description

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in GNU Binutils 2.43. Affected is the function xstrdup of the file xstrdup.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory leak. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The code maintainer explains: "I'm not going to commit some of the leak fixes I've been working on to the 2.44 branch due to concern that would destabilise ld. All of the reported leaks in this bugzilla have been fixed on binutils master."

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability low.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-1152 is classified as CWE-401: Memory Leak. Allocated memory is never released, so long-running or repeated operations gradually exhaust it.

Affected software

CVE-2025-1152 is recorded against 1 package.

binutils

Timeline and source

Published on 10 February 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

sourceware.org
sourceware.org
vuldb.com
vuldb.com
www.gnu.org

CVE-2025-1152 on other distributions

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

BellSoft Debian Ubuntu

Details

Severity LOW

CVSS Score 3.1

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

CWE CWE-401

Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes

Source NVD

Published 2025-02-10

Updated 2026-08-20

Modified 2026-06-17

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
binutils	—	—

References

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=15887

Issue Tracking https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32576

Permissions Required, VDB Entry https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.295056

Permissions Required, VDB Entry https://vuldb.com/?id.295056

Product https://www.gnu.org/

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