CVE-2025-11414

GNU Binutils Linker elflink.c get_link_hash_entry out-of-bounds

State: Published
Severity: 4.8 Medium
Published: Oct 7, 2025
Updated: Oct 15, 2026
Reserved: Oct 7, 2025

Description

A vulnerability was determined in GNU Binutils 2.45. Affected by this vulnerability is the function get_link_hash_entry of the file bfd/elflink.c of the component Linker. This manipulation causes out-of-bounds read. The attack can only be executed locally. The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be utilized. Upgrading to version 2.46 addresses this issue. Patch name: aeaaa9af6359c8e394ce9cf24911fec4f4d23703. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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 2.46Not affected

References

VDB-327350 | GNU Binutils Linker elflink.c get_link_hash_entry out-of-boundsvdb-entrytechnical-description
VDB-327350 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, IOA)signaturepermissions-required
Submit #665591 | GNU Binutils 2.45 Out-of-Bounds Readthird-party-advisory
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33450issue-tracking
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16361exploit
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=aeaaa9af6359c8e394ce9cf24911fec4f4d23703patch
https://www.gnu.org/product
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html

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