Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime Affecting binutils package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-9788140
  • published21 Apr 2025
  • disclosed4 Apr 2025
  • creditHaoxin Tu

Introduced: 4 Apr 2025

CVE-2025-3198  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime through the display_info function. An attacker can cause a memory leak by manipulating the function's handling of certain inputs.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1