CVE-2025-11494

A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.45. Impacted is the function _bfd_x86_elf_late_size_sections of the file bfd/elfxx-x86.c of the component Linker. The manipulation results in out-of-bounds read. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit has been made public and could be used. The patch is identified as b6ac5a8a5b82f0ae6a4642c8d7149b325f4cc60a. A patch should be applied to remediate 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 11% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWEs

CWE-125, CWE-119

Published

2025-10-08

Modified

2026-10-08

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• gnu:binutils

References

• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16389
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33499
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33499#c2
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=b6ac5a8a5b82f0ae6a4642c8d7149b325f4cc60a
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.327619

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