CVE-2025-8225

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-8225
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-8225.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-8225
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-07-27T08:02:06.568Z
Modified
2026-07-11T17:25:36.979700Z
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 DWARF Section dwarf.c process_debug_info memory leak
Details

A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.44 and classified as problematic. This issue affects the function processdebuginfo of the file binutils/dwarf.c of the component DWARF Section Handler. The manipulation leads to memory leak. Attacking locally is a requirement. The identifier of the patch is e51fdff7d2e538c0e5accdd65649ac68e6e0ddd4. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "VulDB",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-401",
        "CWE-404"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/8xxx/CVE-2025-8225.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / gitlab.com/gnutools/binutils-gdb

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://gitlab.com/gnutools/binutils-gdb
Events
Introduced
815d9a14cbbb3b81843f7566222c87fb22e7255d
Fixed
e51fdff7d2e538c0e5accdd65649ac68e6e0ddd4
Database specific 
{
    "source": [
        "AFFECTED_FIELD",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.44"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.44"
        }
    ]
}
Type
GIT
Repo
https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
Events
Introduced
815d9a14cbbb3b81843f7566222c87fb22e7255d
Last affected
815d9a14cbbb3b81843f7566222c87fb22e7255d
Database specific 
{
    "source": "CPE_STRING",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.44:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.44"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.44"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.44
Other
binutils-2_44

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-8225.json"
vanir_signatures_modified 
"2026-07-11T17:25:36Z"
vanir_signatures 
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        "signature_version": "v1",
        "source": "https://gitlab.com/gnutools/binutils-gdb@e51fdff7d2e538c0e5accdd65649ac68e6e0ddd4",
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "id": "CVE-2025-8225-989df07f",
        "digest": {
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            "threshold": 0.9
        },
        "deprecated": false,
        "target": {
            "file": "binutils/dwarf.c"
        }
    },
    {
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "source": "https://gitlab.com/gnutools/binutils-gdb@e51fdff7d2e538c0e5accdd65649ac68e6e0ddd4",
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "id": "CVE-2025-8225-b988f82f",
        "digest": {
            "length": 11973.0,
            "function_hash": "310981831396211155408794020530760590478"
        },
        "deprecated": false,
        "target": {
            "function": "process_debug_info",
            "file": "binutils/dwarf.c"
        }
    }
]