CVE-2025-5244

Publication date 27 May 2025

Last updated 1 December 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils up to 2.44. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function elf_gc_sweep of the file bfd/elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 2.45 is able to address this issue. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
binutils	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Fixed 2.44-3ubuntu1.1
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 2.42-4ubuntu2.6
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2.38-4ubuntu2.10
	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	5.3 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L