CVE-2025-1179

Publication date 11 February 2025

Last updated 30 June 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function bfd_putl64 of the file bfd/libbfd.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. The attack may be launched remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 2.44 is able to address this issue. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The code maintainer explains, that ”[t]his bug has been fixed at some point between the 2.43 and 2.44 releases”.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
binutils	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needed
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

seth-arnold

binutils isn’t safe for untrusted inputs.

john-breton

From testing, only versions >= 2.43 and < 2.44 are affected. The supplied PoC does not yield a seg fault on other versions (no OOB write).

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
binutils	Upstream: 76eab8f

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.0 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L