Low severity3.3NVD Advisory· Published Oct 8, 2025· Updated May 12, 2026

CVE-2025-11494

Description

A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.45. Impacted is the function _bfd_x86_elf_late_size_sections of the file bfd/elfxx-x86.c of the component Linker. The manipulation results in out-of-bounds read. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit has been made public and could be used. The patch is identified as b6ac5a8a5b82f0ae6a4642c8d7149b325f4cc60a. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.

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GNU/Binutils2 versions
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.45:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.45:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: = 2.45
osv-coords118 versions
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pkg:rpm/suse/perf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-ESPOS pkg:rpm/suse/perf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/perf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP5-ESPOS pkg:rpm/suse/perf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP5-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/perf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Development%20Tools%2015%20SP6 pkg:rpm/suse/perf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Development%20Tools%2015%20SP7 pkg:rpm/suse/perf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/perf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP4-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/perf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP5-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/perf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP3 pkg:rpm/suse/perf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP4 pkg:rpm/suse/perf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP5
< 2.45.1-r1+ 117 more
- (no CPE)range: < 2.45.1-r1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.45.1-r1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.45.1-r1
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- (no CPE)range: < 2.45-150100.7.57.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.45-160000.1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.45-1.2
- (no CPE)range: < 7.5.0-160000.2.3
- (no CPE)range: < 2.45-150100.7.57.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.45-160000.1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.45-150100.7.57.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.45-160000.1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.45-150100.7.57.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.45-160000.1.1
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- (no CPE)range: < 2.45-160000.1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.45-150100.7.57.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.45-160000.1.1
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- (no CPE)range: < 2.45-160000.1.1
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- (no CPE)range: < 2.45-160000.1.1
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- (no CPE)range: < 2.45-150100.7.57.1
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- (no CPE)range: < 2.45-160000.1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.15.0-150600.3.5.2
- (no CPE)range: < 6.4.0.git33229.a3afe13a7f-150600.3.17.1
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- (no CPE)range: < 7.5.0-160000.2.3
- (no CPE)range: < 7.5.0-160000.2.3
- (no CPE)range: < 1.9.0-150300.4.2.5
- (no CPE)range: < 1.9.0-150300.4.2.5
- (no CPE)range: < 1.11.1-150400.4.2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.11.1-150400.4.2.1
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- (no CPE)range: < 1.15.0-150600.3.5.2
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- (no CPE)range: < 1.11.1-150400.4.2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.13.1-150500.4.2.5
- (no CPE)range: < 1.9.0-150300.4.2.5
- (no CPE)range: < 1.11.1-150400.4.2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.13.1-150500.4.2.5
- (no CPE)range: < 1.11.1-150400.4.2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.11.1-150400.4.2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.38.7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.38.7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.14.21-150400.44.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.14.21-150400.44.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.14.21-150500.52.5.1
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- (no CPE)range: < 6.4.0.git33229.a3afe13a7f-150600.3.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.4.0.git54263.0aad576b1c-150700.3.2.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.38.7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.14.21-150400.44.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.14.21-150500.52.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.18-150300.38.7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.14.21-150400.44.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.14.21-150500.52.5.1

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vuldb.comnvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
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