Out-of-Bounds Affecting binutils-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-BINUTILSDEVEL-13529451
  • published10 Oct 2025
  • disclosed8 Oct 2025

Introduced: 8 Oct 2025

NewCVE-2025-11494  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 binutils-devel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils-devel package and not the binutils-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.45. Impacted is the function _bfd_x86_elf_late_size_sections of the file bfd/elfxx-x86.c of the component Linker. The manipulation results in out-of-bounds read. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit has been made public and could be used. The patch is identified as b6ac5a8a5b82f0ae6a4642c8d7149b325f4cc60a. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1