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CVE-2025-1151 – GNU Binutils Remote Memory Leak in ld”xmemdup”

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2025-1151 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution
of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may
impact the vulnerability’s severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • New CVE Received
    by [email protected]

    Feb. 10, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects the function xmemdup of the file xmemdup.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory leak. The attack may be initiated remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The code maintainer explains: “I’m not going to commit some of the leak fixes I’ve been working on to the 2.44 branch due to concern that would destabilise ld. All of the reported leaks in this bugzilla have been fixed on binutils master.”
    Added CVSS V4.0 AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
    Added CWE CWE-404
    Added CWE CWE-401
    Added Reference https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=15887
    Added Reference https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32576
    Added Reference https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.295055
    Added Reference https://vuldb.com/?id.295055
    Added Reference https://www.gnu.org/
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