CVE-2025-1181

Publication date 11 February 2025

Last updated 1 December 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in GNU Binutils 2.43. This vulnerability affects the function _bfd_elf_gc_mark_rsec of the file bfd/elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. The attack can be initiated 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 name of the patch is 931494c9a89558acb36a03a340c01726545eef24. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

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	Fixed 2.34-6ubuntu1.11+esm1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.9+esm5
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm13
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.24-5ubuntu14.2+esm7

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Notes

seth-arnold

binutils isn't safe for untrusted inputs.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.0 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L