CVE-2025-11494

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-11494
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-11494.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-11494
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-10-08T19:32:07.225Z
Modified
2026-05-18T05:59:08.560150711Z
Severity
  • 1.9 (Low) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P CVSS Calculator
Summary
GNU Binutils Linker elfxx-x86.c _bfd_x86_elf_late_size_sections out-of-bounds
Details

A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.45. Impacted is the function bfdx86elflatesizesections 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.

Database specific 
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-119",
        "CWE-125"
    ],
    "cna_assigner": "VulDB",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/11xxx/CVE-2025-11494.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
2bc7af1ff7732451b6a7b09462a815c3284f9613
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.45"
        }
    ],
    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD"
}

Affected versions

Other
binutils-2_41-release
binutils-2_45
gdb-10-branchpoint
gdb-11-branchpoint
gdb-12-branchpoint
gdb-13-branchpoint
gdb-14-branchpoint
gdb-15-branchpoint
gdb-16-branchpoint
gdb-4_18-branchpoint
gdb-9-branchpoint
gdb_5_2-branchpoint
gdb_5_3-branchpoint
gdb_6_0-branchpoint
gdb_6_1-branchpoint
gdb_6_2-branchpoint
gdb_6_3-branchpoint
gdb_6_4-branchpoint
gdb_6_5-branchpoint
gdb_6_6-branchpoint
gdb_6_7-branchpoint
gdb_6_8-branchpoint
gdb_7_0-branchpoint
gdb_7_1-branchpoint
gdb_7_2-branchpoint
gdb_7_3-branchpoint
gdb_7_4-branchpoint
gdb_7_5-branchpoint
gdb_7_6-branchpoint
users/ARM/embedded-binutils-master-2016q4
users/ARM/embedded-binutils-master-2017q4
users/ARM/embedded-binutils-master-2018q4
users/ARM/embedded-gdb-master-2017q4
users/ARM/embedded-gdb-master-2018q4
gdb-7.*
gdb-7.10-branchpoint
gdb-7.11-branchpoint
gdb-7.12-branchpoint
gdb-7.7-branchpoint
gdb-7.8-branchpoint
gdb-7.9-branchpoint
gdb-8.*
gdb-8.0-branchpoint
gdb-8.1-branchpoint
gdb-8.2-branchpoint
gdb-8.3-branchpoint

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-11494.json"