A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.45. Affected is the function elf_link_add_object_symbols of the file bfd/elflink.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. Upgrading to version 2.46 is able to address this issue. The patch is identified as 72efdf166aa0ed72ecc69fc2349af6591a7a19c0. Upgrading the affected component is advised.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=72efdf166aa0ed72ecc69fc2349af6591a7a19c0 Patch
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 1.9 · gnuNVD modified 2026-10-08 13:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.45:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 11
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16362 Broken Link
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33452 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33456#c10 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=72efdf166aa0ed72ecc69fc2349af6591a7a19c0 Patch
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.327349 Permissions Required, VDB Entry
- https://vuldb.com/?id.327349 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://vuldb.com/?submit.665587 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://vuldb.com/?submit.665590
- https://www.gnu.org/ Product
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33452 Exploit, Issue Tracking