CVE-2025-11494 | GNU Binutils 2.45 Linker bfd/elfxx-x86.c _bfd_x86_elf_late_size_sections out-of-bounds (Bug 33499)

October 8, 2025 Yanac

A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.45 and classified as problematic. 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.

This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-11494. The attack needs to be approached locally. In addition, an exploit is available.

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