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.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11494
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16389
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33499
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33499#c2
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=b6ac5a8a5b82f0ae6a4642c8d7149b325f4cc60a
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.327619
• https://vuldb.com/?id.327619
• https://vuldb.com/?submit.668281
• https://www.gnu.org