Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package mingw64-binutils (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published26 Jun 2026
- disclosed16 Oct 2025
Introduced: 16 Oct 2025
CVE-2025-11840 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mingw64-binutils package and not the mingw64-binutils package as distributed by RHEL.
A weakness has been identified in GNU Binutils 2.45. The affected element is the function vfinfo of the file ldmisc.c. Executing a manipulation can lead to out-of-bounds read. The attack can only be executed locally. The exploit has been made available to the public and could be used for attacks. This patch is called 16357. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2404481
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-11840
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:7098
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16351
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16357
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33455
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.328775
- https://vuldb.com/?id.328775
- https://vuldb.com/?submit.661281
- https://www.gnu.org/
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html