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Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CVE-2025-11082

Low
1.9/10

Summary

A flaw has been found in GNU Binutils. Impacted is the function "_bfd_elf_parse_eh_frame" of the file "bfd/elf-eh-frame.c" of the component Linker. Executing manipulation can lead to a Heap-based Buffer Overflow. The attack is restricted to local execution. The exploit has been published and may be used. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue. This issue affects binutils-gdb versions binutils-2_12-branchpoint through binutils-2_45.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow

A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published