CVE-2025-1178

Publication date 11 February 2025

Last updated 19 November 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.6 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function bfd_putl64 of the file libbfd.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. The attack can be launched remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of the patch is 75086e9de1707281172cc77f178e7949a4414ed0. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
binutils 25.10 questing
Not affected
25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular
Fixed 2.43.1-4ubuntu1.2
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 2.42-4ubuntu2.5
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2.38-4ubuntu2.8
20.04 LTS focal Ignored backport too intrusive
18.04 LTS bionic Ignored backport too intrusive
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored backport too intrusive
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored backport too intrusive

Notes

seth-arnold

binutils isn't safe for untrusted inputs.

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package Patch details
binutils

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.6 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact Low
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-7423-1
    • GNU binutils vulnerabilities
    • 7 April 2025

Other references