CVE-2025-1178

Publication date 11 February 2025

Last updated 7 April 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.6 · Medium

Score breakdown

A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function bfd_putl64 of the file libbfd.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. The attack can be launched remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of the patch is 75086e9de1707281172cc77f178e7949a4414ed0. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
binutils 24.10 oracular
Fixed 2.43.1-4ubuntu1.2
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 2.42-4ubuntu2.5
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2.38-4ubuntu2.8
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2.34-6ubuntu1.11
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
14.04 LTS trusty
Needs evaluation

Notes

seth-arnold

binutils isn't safe for untrusted inputs.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.6 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact Low
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L