CVE-2025-11413

Publication date 7 October 2025

Last updated 26 October 2026

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

3.3 · Low

Score breakdown

Description

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.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
binutils 25.10 questing
Fixed in 2.45-7ubuntu1.2
25.04 plucky
Fixed in 2.44-3ubuntu1.3
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed in 2.42-4ubuntu2.8
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed in 2.38-4ubuntu2.12
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed in 2.34-6ubuntu1.11+esm2
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed in 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.9+esm13
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed in 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm14
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed in 2.24-5ubuntu14.2+esm8

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Notes

seth-arnold

binutils isn't safe for untrusted inputs.

Patch details

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Package Patch details
binutils

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version:

Base score 1.9 · Low

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

Base score 3.3 · Low

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-7919-1
    • GNU binutils vulnerabilities
    • 10 December 2025

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