CVE-2025-1151

Publication date 10 February 2025

Last updated 13 February 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.”

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Why is this CVE low priority?

Memory leak in ld which isn’t expected to handle untrusted inputs

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
binutils	24.10 oracular	Needs evaluation
	24.04 LTS noble	Needs evaluation
	22.04 LTS jammy	Needs evaluation
	20.04 LTS focal	Needs evaluation
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Needs evaluation

Notes

seth-arnold

binutils isn’t safe for untrusted inputs.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	3.1 · Low
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L