| Name | CVE-2025-1372 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| elfutils (PTS) | bullseye | 0.183-1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 0.188-2.1 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 0.192-4 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| elfutils | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | | |
Notes
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32656
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32657
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=elfutils.git;a=commit;h=73db9d2021cab9e23fd734b0a76a612d52a6f1db
Crash in CLI tool, considered only to be a normal bug by upstream