CVE-2025-7545

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in GNU Binutils 2.45. Affected by this vulnerability is the function copy_section of the file binutils/objcopy.c. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The patch is named 08c3cbe5926e4d355b5cb70bbec2b1eeb40c2944. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

CVSS 4.0

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

CVSS 3.1

7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 22% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWEs

CWE-119, CWE-122

Published

2025-07-13

Modified

2026-10-15

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• gnu:binutils

References

• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16117
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33049
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33049#c1
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=08c3cbe5926e4d355b5cb70bbec2b1eeb40c2944
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.316243

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