5.5

CVE-2023-25585: gnu binutils Use of Uninitialized Variable

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2023-25585DEBIAN-CVE-2023-25585
Published 14-09-2023Last modified 13-02-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-25585 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) Use of Uninitialized Variable vulnerability in gnu binutils. EPSS estimates a 0.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 30.5% of scored vulnerabilities. 2 public exploits are recorded.

Overall risk
32/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.38%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits2reference

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 4
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12816-1SUSE-SU-2023:3695-1SUSE-SU-2023:3825-1USN-6101-1

Timeline

  1. 14-09-2023
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 13-02-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A flaw was found in Binutils. The use of an uninitialized field in the struct module *module may lead to application crash and local denial of service.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.38%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

31%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.38% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.38%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

2 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (bugzilla.redhat.com)

    Maturity: unknown

  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (sourceware.org)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • binutils< 2.39.50.20221224-1
Gnu1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • binutils< 2.24-5ubuntu14.2+esm1 | < 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm6 | < 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.9 | < 2.34-6ubuntu1.5 | < 2.38-4ubuntu2.2

3 vendors · 3 products

References

9 links