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Medium ALAS2023-2025-956 2 CVEs

Moderate: binutils security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Apr 23, 2025 · Updated Apr 29, 2025

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-1182: A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in GNU Binutils 2.43. Affected is the function bfd_elf_reloc_symbol_deleted_p of the file bfd/elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The patch is identified as b425859021d17adf62f06fb904797cf8642986ad. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. CVE-2025-1176: A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function _bfd_elf_gc_mark_rsec of the file elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. 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. The patch is named f9978defb6fab0bd8583942d97c112b0932ac814. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

Fixed packages 6

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 binutils 0:2.41-50.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 binutils-debuginfo 0:2.41-50.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 binutils-debugsource 0:2.41-50.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 binutils-devel 0:2.41-50.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 binutils-gprofng 0:2.41-50.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 binutils-gprofng-debuginfo 0:2.41-50.amzn2023.0.3

Vulnerabilities 2

  • Medium 5.0

    GNU Binutils ld elflink.c _bfd_elf_gc_mark_rsec heap-based overflow

    A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function _bfd_elf_gc_mark_rsec of the file elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. The attack may be initiated remot…

  • Medium 5.0

    GNU Binutils ld elflink.c bfd_elf_reloc_symbol_deleted_p memory corruption

    A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in GNU Binutils 2.43. Affected is the function bfd_elf_reloc_symbol_deleted_p of the file bfd/elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. It is possible to launch the…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-1176.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-1182.html