CVE-2025-7545: A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in GNU Binutils 2.45. Affected by this vulnerability is the function copy_section of the file…

low1.9CVSS 4.0

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in GNU Binutils 2.45. Affected by this vulnerability is the function copy_section of the file binutils/objcopy.c. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The patch is named 08c3cbe5926e4d355b5cb70bbec2b1eeb40c2944. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	binutils	< binutils 2.45-3 (forky)	binutils 2.45-3 (forky)
gnu	binutils	—	—
gnu	binutils	>= 0 < 2.45-3	2.45-3
msrc	azl3_binutils_2.41-7_on_azure_linux_3.0	—	—
msrc	cbl2_binutils_2.37-15_on_cbl_mariner_2.0	—	—
msrc	cbl2_binutils_2.37-16_on_cbl_mariner_2.0	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv4.01.9LOWCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

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