CVE-2025-1147: gnu binutils

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-1147 is a medium (CVSS 5.3) vulnerability in gnu binutils. EPSS estimates a 0.67% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 51% of scored vulnerabilities. 3 public exploits are recorded.

Timeline

1. 10-02-2025
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 04-04-2025
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A vulnerability has been found in GNU Binutils 2.43 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function __sanitizer::internal_strlen of the file binutils/nm.c of the component nm. The manipulation of the argument const leads to buffer overflow. The attack can be launched remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
• CWE-120Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer.