CVE-2025-5244 | GNU Binutils up to 2.44 ld bfd/elflink.c elf_gc_sweep memory corruption (Bug 32858)

A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils up to 2.44. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function elf_gc_sweep of the file bfd/elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory corruption.

This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-5244. An attack has to be approached locally. Furthermore, there is an exploit available.

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