CVE-2025-11081

GNU Binutils objdump.c dump_dwarf_section out-of-bounds

State: Published
Severity: 4.8 Medium
Published: Sep 27, 2025
Updated: Sep 29, 2025
Reserved: Sep 26, 2025

Description

A vulnerability was detected in GNU Binutils 2.45. This issue affects the function dump_dwarf_section of the file binutils/objdump.c. Performing manipulation results in out-of-bounds read. The attack is only possible with local access. The exploit is now public and may be used. The patch is named f87a66db645caf8cc0e6fc87b0c28c78a38af59b. It is suggested to install a patch to address this issue.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	4.8 Medium	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	VulDB
3.1	3.3 Low	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C	VulDB
3.0	3.3 Low	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C	VulDB
2.0	1.7 Low	AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C	VulDB

Weaknesses

CWE-125 Out-of-Bounds Read
CWE-119 Memory Corruption

Affected Products

Product	Versions
BinutilsGNU	2.45Affected

References

VDB-326122 | GNU Binutils objdump.c dump_dwarf_section out-of-boundsvdb-entrytechnical-description
VDB-326122 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, IOA)signaturepermissions-required
Submit #661275 | GNU Binutils 2.45 Out-of-Bounds Readthird-party-advisory
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33406issue-tracking
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33406#c2issue-tracking
https://github.com/user-attachments/files/20623354/hdf5_crash_3.txtexploit
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=f87a66db645caf8cc0e6fc87b0c28c78a38af59bpatch
https://www.gnu.org/product

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