Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package rhcos (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-RHCOS-13527527
- published10 Oct 2025
- disclosed8 Oct 2025
Introduced: 8 Oct 2025
CVE-2025-11494 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rhcos package and not the rhcos package as distributed by RHEL.
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.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-11494
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16389
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33499
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33499#c2
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=b6ac5a8a5b82f0ae6a4642c8d7149b325f4cc60a
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.327619
- https://vuldb.com/?id.327619
- https://vuldb.com/?submit.668281
- https://www.gnu.org/
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html