Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime Affecting binutils package, versions [,2.44)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.05% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-8720391
  • published13 Feb 2025
  • disclosed10 Feb 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Feb 2025

NewCVE-2025-1150  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade binutils to version 2.44 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime due to the bfd_malloc function.

References

CVSS Scores

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