CVE-2025-1372

Publication date 17 February 2025

Last updated 24 March 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.3 · Medium

Score breakdown

A vulnerability was found in GNU elfutils 0.192. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function dump_data_section/print_string_section of the file readelf.c of the component eu-readelf. The manipulation of the argument z/x leads to buffer overflow. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of the patch is 73db9d2021cab9e23fd734b0a76a612d52a6f1db. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
elfutils 24.10 oracular
Fixed 0.191-2ubuntu0.1
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 0.190-1.1ubuntu0.1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 0.186-1ubuntu0.1
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected

Patch details

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Package Patch details
elfutils

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.3 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact Low
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L