CVE-2025-11840

A weakness has been identified in GNU Binutils 2.45. The affected element is the function vfinfo of the file ldmisc.c. Executing a manipulation can lead to out-of-bounds read. The attack can only be executed locally. The exploit has been made available to the public and could be used for attacks. This patch is called 16357. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve 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

0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 19% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWEs

CWE-125, CWE-119

Published

2025-10-16

Modified

2026-10-09

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• gnu:binutils

References

• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16351
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16357
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33455
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.328775
• https://vuldb.com/?id.328775

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