🛡️ CVE-2025-5245 on Alpine 3.21 (Root.io) — binutils

🟢 CVSS 2.0 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit OSV

2.0

CVSS Score

0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

CVE-2025-5245 in binutils - Patched by Root

Root has patched CVE-2025-5245 in the binutils package for Root:Alpine:3.21. Multiple fixed versions available.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2025-5245 as tracked by Alpine 3.21 (Root.io), for the package binutils. The fix is available in version 2.43.1-r30071; 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 high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

ROOT-OS-ALPINE-321-CVE-2025-5245 is classified as CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Buffer Bounds. A read or write is performed without confirming it stays inside the allocated buffer, corrupting adjacent memory.

Affected software

ROOT-OS-ALPINE-321-CVE-2025-5245 is recorded against 2 packages.

binutils (fixed in 2.43.1-r30071)
rootio-binutils (fixed in 2.43.1-r30071)

Timeline and source

Published on 7 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

CVE-2025-5245 on other distributions

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

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

Details

Severity LOW

CVSS Score 2.0

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

CWE N/A

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source OSV

Published 2026-08-07

Updated 2026-08-20

Modified 2026-08-07

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
binutils	—	2.43.1-r30071
rootio-binutils	—	2.43.1-r30071

References

N/A

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