SecuriTricks - CVE-2025-1178

Description

A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function bfd_putl64 of the file libbfd.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. The attack can be launched remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of the patch is 75086e9de1707281172cc77f178e7949a4414ed0. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

Product(s) Impacted

Product	Versions
GNU Binutils	['2.43']

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-119

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer.

References

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=15914

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32638

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=75086e9de1707281172cc77f178e7949a4414ed0

https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.295081

https://vuldb.com/?id.295081

https://vuldb.com/?submit.495369

https://www.gnu.org/

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32638

CVSS Score

5.6 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

Attack Vector: NETWORK
Attack Complexity: HIGH
Privileges Required: NONE
Scope: UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact: LOW
Integrity Impact: LOW
Availability Impact: LOW

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

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Timeline

Published: Feb. 11, 2025, 7:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Feb. 11, 2025, 4:15 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

cna@vuldb.com

CVE-2025-1178