Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime Affecting binutils package, versions [0,]
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- published4 Aug 2025
- disclosed27 Jul 2025
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 27 Jul 2025
NewCVE-2025-8225 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime via the process_debug_info function in the dwarf.c file. An attacker can cause resource exhaustion by triggering repeated processing of specially crafted DWARF sections.