🛡️ CVE-2025-3198 — binutils

🟢 CVSS 3.3 — Low ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-401 NVD
3.3
CVSS Score
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Description

A vulnerability has been found in GNU Binutils 2.43/2.44 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function display_info of the file binutils/bucomm.c of the component objdump. The manipulation leads to memory leak. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The patch is named ba6ad3a18cb26b79e0e3b84c39f707535bbc344d. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

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

CVE-2025-3198 is classified as CWE-401: Memory Leak. Allocated memory is never released, so long-running or repeated operations gradually exhaust it.

Affected software

CVE-2025-3198 is recorded against 1 package.

  • binutils

Timeline and source

Published on 4 April 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

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CVE-2025-3198 on other distributions

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Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 3.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE CWE-401
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2025-04-04
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
binutils

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