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Medium ALSA-2025:23306 2 CVEs

Moderate: binutils security update

Published Dec 16, 2025 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

The binutils packages provide a collection of binary utilities for the manipulation of object code in various object file formats. It includes the ar, as, gprof, ld, nm, objcopy, objdump, ranlib, readelf, size, strings, strip, and addr2line utilities.

Security Fix(es):

* binutils: GNU Binutils Linker heap-based overflow (CVE-2025-11082)
* binutils: GNU Binutils Linker heap-based overflow (CVE-2025-11083)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 10 binutils 2.41-58.el10_1.2.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 binutils-devel 2.41-58.el10_1.2.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 binutils-gold 2.41-58.el10_1.2.alma.1

Vulnerabilities 2

  • Medium 5.3

    GNU Binutils Linker elf-eh-frame.c _bfd_elf_parse_eh_frame heap-based overflow

    A flaw has been found in GNU Binutils 2.45. Impacted is the function _bfd_elf_parse_eh_frame of the file bfd/elf-eh-frame.c of the component Linker. Executing manipulation can lead to heap-based buffer overflow. The attack is restricted to local execution. Th…

  • Medium 5.3

    GNU Binutils Linker elfcode.h elf_swap_shdr heap-based overflow

    A vulnerability has been found in GNU Binutils 2.45. The affected element is the function elf_swap_shdr in the library bfd/elfcode.h of the component Linker. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. The attack must be carried out locally. The exp…

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-11082
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-11083
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2399943
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2399948
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/10/ALSA-2025-23306.html