| Name | CVE-2025-3198 |
| Description | A vulnerability has been found in GNU Binutils 2.43/2.44 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function display_info of the file binutils/bucomm.c of the component objdump. The manipulation leads to memory leak. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The patch is named ba6ad3a18cb26b79e0e3b84c39f707535bbc344d. 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 |
|---|
| binutils (PTS) | bullseye | 2.35.2-2 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 2.40-2 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 2.44-3 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| binutils | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | | |
Notes
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32716
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=ba6ad3a18cb26b79e0e3b84c39f707535bbc344d
binutils not covered by security support