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Medium ELSA-2025-23336 1 CVE

Moderate: gcc-toolset-13-binutils security update (Oracle Linux 9)

Published Dec 18, 2025 · Updated Dec 18, 2025

Summary

[2.40-21.0.1.1]
- Forward-port Oracle patches to 2.40-21.1.
- CVE-2025-11083
- Reviewed-by: David Faust <david.faust@oracle.com>
Oracle history:
April-02-2024 Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com> - 2.40-21.0.1
- Forward-port Oracle patchs to 2.40-21.
- Reviewed-by: Cupertino Miranda <cupertino.miranda@oracle.com>
December-15-2023 Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com> - 2.40-13.0.1
- libctf, link: fix CU-mapped links with CTF_LINK_EMPTY_CU_MAPPINGS.
Backport of upstream commit 869a750c0ec0abcab84e38a43a1ed73321ef4371.
[Orabug: 36113992]
- Reviewed-by: David Faust <david.faust@oracle.com>

[2.40-21.1]
- Fix a potential illegal memory access when linking a corrupt input file. (RHEL-130652)

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 9 gcc-toolset-13-binutils 0:2.40-21.0.1.el9_7.1
Oracle Linux · 9 gcc-toolset-13-binutils-devel 0:2.40-21.0.1.el9_7.1
Oracle Linux · 9 gcc-toolset-13-binutils-gold 0:2.40-21.0.1.el9_7.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • 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…