CVE-2025-1182

Publication date 11 February 2025

Last updated 1 December 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.0 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in GNU Binutils 2.43. Affected is the function bfd_elf_reloc_symbol_deleted_p of the file bfd/elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The patch is identified as b425859021d17adf62f06fb904797cf8642986ad. 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
Fixed 2.44-3ubuntu1.1
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
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.

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 5.0 · 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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-7423-1
    • GNU binutils vulnerabilities
    • 7 April 2025
    • USN-7847-1
    • GNU binutils vulnerabilities
    • 29 October 2025
    • USN-7899-1
    • GNU binutils vulnerabilities
    • 1 December 2025

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