Memory Leak The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils-gold  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-MINIMOSLATEST-BINUTILSGOLD-13119789
  • published29 Sept 2025
  • disclosed27 Jul 2025

Introduced: 27 Jul 2025

CVE-2025-8225  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Minimos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Minimos:latest.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils-gold package and not the binutils-gold package as distributed by Minimos.

A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.44 and classified as problematic. This issue affects the function process_debug_info of the file binutils/dwarf.c of the component DWARF Section Handler. The manipulation leads to memory leak. Attacking locally is a requirement. The identifier of the patch is e51fdff7d2e538c0e5accdd65649ac68e6e0ddd4. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.