| Name | CVE-2025-1178 |
| Description | A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function bfd_putl64 of the file libbfd.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. The attack can be launched remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of the patch is 75086e9de1707281172cc77f178e7949a4414ed0. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1108986 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| binutils (PTS) | bullseye | 2.35.2-2 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 2.40-2 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 2.44-3 | vulnerable |
| forky | 2.45-6 | fixed |
| sid | 2.45-7 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| binutils | source | (unstable) | 2.45-3 | unimportant | | 1108986 |
Notes
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32638
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=75086e9de1707281172cc77f178e7949a4414ed0
binutils not covered by security support