CVE-2025-1352

Publication date 16 February 2025

Last updated 7 May 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

A vulnerability has been found in GNU elfutils 0.192 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects the function __libdw_thread_tail in the library libdw_alloc.c of the component eu-readelf. The manipulation of the argument w leads to memory corruption. The attack can be initiated 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 name of the patch is 2636426a091bd6c6f7f02e49ab20d4cdc6bfc753. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

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Why is this CVE low priority?

Only a crash in a command line tool.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
elfutils	25.04 plucky	Vulnerable
	24.10 oracular	Vulnerable
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

fabian

The associated patch does not fix the issue as the reproducer still triggers the bug.

mdeslaur

per upstream elfutils developers, they do not consider this issue to be a security issue. This CVE may get rejected. This is only a crash in a command-line tool, marking as low.

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
elfutils	Upstream: ?id=263

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