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.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=b6ac5a8a5b82f0ae6a4642c8d7149b325f4cc60a 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 9
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16389 Broken Link
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33499 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33499#c2 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=b6ac5a8a5b82f0ae6a4642c8d7149b325f4cc60a Patch
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.327619 Permissions Required, VDB Entry
- https://vuldb.com/?id.327619 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://vuldb.com/?submit.668281 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.gnu.org/ Product
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html