CVE-2025-11494

CWE-119 — Buffer OverflowCWE-125 — Out-of-bounds ReadCWE-908 — Use of Uninitialized Resource10 documents9 sources
Severity
4.8MEDIUM
EPSS
0.0%
top 90.02%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
GNU Binutils
Timeline
PublishedOct 8
Latest updateDec 10

Description

A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.45. Impacted is the function _bfd_x86_elf_late_size_sections of the file bfd/elfxx-x86.c of the component Linker. The manipulation results in out-of-bounds read. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit has been made public and could be used. The patch is identified as b6ac5a8a5b82f0ae6a4642c8d7149b325f4cc60a. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected Packages3 packages

▶Debianbinutils< 2.46-1
▶CVEListV5gnu/binutils2.45
▶NVDgnu/binutils2.45

Patches

Patch: sourceware.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-g3q3-pmmg-p6p8: A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2↗2025-10-08
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OSV
CVE-2025-11494: A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2↗2025-10-08
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CVEList
GNU Binutils Linker elfxx-x86.c _bfd_x86_elf_late_size_sections out-of-bounds↗2025-10-08
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📋Vendor Advisories

5
Ubuntu
GNU binutils vulnerabilities↗2025-12-10
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Microsoft
GNU Binutils Linker elfxx-x86.c _bfd_x86_elf_late_size_sections out-of-bounds↗2025-10-14
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Red Hat
binutils: GNU Binutils Linker out-of-bounds read↗2025-10-08
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Debian
CVE-2025-11494: binutils - A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.45. Impacted is the function _bfd_x8...↗2025
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Microsoft
An issue was discovered in slc_bump in drivers/net/can/slcan.c in the Linux kernel 3.16 through 5.6.2. It allows attackers to read uninitialized can_frame data potentially containing sensitive informa↗2020-04-14
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2025-11494 binutils: GNU Binutils Linker out-of-bounds read↗2025-10-08
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CVE-2025-11494 (MEDIUM CVSS 4.8) | A vulnerability was found in GNU Bi | cvebase.io