CVE-2025-1153

Publication date 10 February 2025

Last updated 30 April 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in GNU Binutils 2.43/2.44. Affected by this vulnerability is the function bfd_set_format of the file format.c. 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. Upgrading to version 2.45 is able to address this issue. The identifier of the patch is 8d97c1a53f3dc9fd8e1ccdb039b8a33d50133150. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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Why is this CVE low priority?

Crash in ld which isn’t expected to handle untrusted inputs

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
binutils	25.04 plucky	Needs evaluation
	24.10 oracular	Fixed 2.43.1-4ubuntu1.2
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 2.42-4ubuntu2.5
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2.38-4ubuntu2.8
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2.34-6ubuntu1.11
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.9+esm4 Ubuntu Pro
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm11 Ubuntu Pro
	14.04 LTS trusty	Needs evaluation

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Notes

seth-arnold

binutils isn’t safe for untrusted inputs.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.9 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H