CVE-2025-11495

A vulnerability was determined in GNU Binutils 2.45. The affected element is the function elf_x86_64_relocate_section of the file elf64-x86-64.c of the component Linker. This manipulation causes heap-based buffer overflow. The attack can only be executed locally. The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be utilized. Patch name: 6b21c8b2ecfef5c95142cbc2c32f185cb1c26ab0. To fix this issue, it is recommended to deploy a patch.

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 14% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWEs

CWE-119, CWE-122

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=16393
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33502
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33502#c3
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=6b21c8b2ecfef5c95142cbc2c32f185cb1c26ab0
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.327620

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