CVE-2025-11081

A vulnerability was detected in GNU Binutils 2.45. This issue affects the function dump_dwarf_section of the file binutils/objdump.c. Performing manipulation results in out-of-bounds read. The attack is only possible with local access. The exploit is now public and may be used. The patch is named f87a66db645caf8cc0e6fc87b0c28c78a38af59b. It is suggested to install a patch to address this issue.

CVSS 4.0

1.9CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

CVSS 3.1

5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 10% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWEs

CWE-119, CWE-125

Published

2025-09-27

Modified

2026-10-09

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• gnu:binutils

References

• https://github.com/user-attachments/files/20623354/hdf5_crash_3.txt
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33406
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33406#c2
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=f87a66db645caf8cc0e6fc87b0c28c78a38af59b
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.326122

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