Summary
Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, including ar (for creating, modifying and extracting from archives), as (a family of GNU assemblers), gprof (for displaying call graph profile data), ld (the GNU linker), nm (for listing symbols from object files), objcopy (for copying and translating object files), objdump (for displaying information from object files), ranlib (for generating an index for the contents of an archive), readelf (for displaying detailed information about binary files), size (for listing the section sizes of an object or archive file), strings (for listing printable strings from files), strip (for discarding symbols), and addr2line (for converting addresses to file and line).
Security Fix(es):
* 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 4
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux · 10 | gcc-toolset-15-binutils | 2.44-7.el10_1.1 |
| AlmaLinux · 10 | gcc-toolset-15-binutils-devel | 2.44-7.el10_1.1 |
| AlmaLinux · 10 | gcc-toolset-15-binutils-gold | 2.44-7.el10_1.1 |
| AlmaLinux · 10 | gcc-toolset-15-binutils-gprofng | 2.44-7.el10_1.1 |
Vulnerabilities 1
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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…