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Medium RHSA-2025:20155 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: binutils security update

Published Nov 12, 2025 · Updated Sep 2, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 10

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.1 binutils 0:2.41-58.el10
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.1 binutils-debuginfo 0:2.41-58.el10
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.1 binutils-debugsource 0:2.41-58.el10
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.1 binutils-devel 0:2.41-58.el10
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.1 binutils-gold 0:2.41-58.el10
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.1 binutils-gold-debuginfo 0:2.41-58.el10
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.1 binutils-gprofng-debuginfo 0:2.41-58.el10
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.1 cross-binutils-aarch64-debuginfo 0:2.41-58.el10
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.1 cross-binutils-ppc64le-debuginfo 0:2.41-58.el10
Red Hat · RHEL 10 enterprise_linux:10.1 cross-binutils-s390x-debuginfo 0:2.41-58.el10

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 5.3
    CVE-2025-5244

    GNU Binutils ld elflink.c elf_gc_sweep memory corruption

    A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils up to 2.44. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function elf_gc_sweep of the file bfd/elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. An attack has to be approached…

    GNU Binutils binutils binutils Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine

References

  • article
    https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/10/html/10.1_release_notes/index
  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2368763
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2025/rhsa-2025_20155.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5244
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-5244
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5244
  • article
    https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16010
  • article
    https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32858
  • article
    https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=d1458933830456e54223d9fc61f0d9b3a19256f5
  • article
    https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.310346
  • article
    https://vuldb.com/?id.310346
  • article
    https://vuldb.com/?submit.584634
  • article
    https://www.gnu.org/