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CVE-2025-1178: GNU Binutils ld libbfd.c bfd_putl64 memory corruption

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.6 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2025-02-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function bfd_putl64 of the file libbfd.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. 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. The identifier of the patch is 75086e9de1707281172cc77f178e7949a4414ed0. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: 2.43
• Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere, Linux, and Microsoft Windows: all versions
• NetApp ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility: all versions

References

• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=15914
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32638
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=75086e9de1707281172cc77f178e7949a4414ed0
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.295081
• https://vuldb.com/?id.295081
• https://vuldb.com/?submit.495369
• https://www.gnu.org/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250411-0008/
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32638

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