🛡️ CVE-2025-1179
🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-119 NVD
5.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function bfd_putl64 of the file bfd/libbfd.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. The attack may be launched remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 2.44 is able to address this issue. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The code maintainer explains, that "[t]his bug has been fixed at some point between the 2.43 and 2.44 releases".

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE CWE-119
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2025-02-11
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2025-03-03
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=15915
Permissions Required, VDB Entry https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.295082
Permissions Required, VDB Entry https://vuldb.com/?id.295082
Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry https://vuldb.com/?submit.495376

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