Bug 2402559 (CVE-2025-11494)

Summary: CVE-2025-11494 binutils: GNU Binutils Linker out-of-bounds read
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: crizzo, jmitchel, kshier
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An out of bounds read flaw has been discovered in the GNU Binutils package. The impacted function is _bfd_x86_elf_late_size_sections 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.
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Bug Depends On: 2402818, 2402820, 2402822, 2402824, 2402826, 2402828, 2402830, 2402834, 2402836, 2402842, 2402846, 2402850, 2402851, 2402832, 2402838, 2402840, 2402844, 2402848    
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-08 20:01:35 UTC
A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.45. Impacted is the function _bfd_x86_elf_late_size_sections 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.