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    CVE-2025-11494

    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.

    Published:Oct 8, 2025
    Last Modified:May 12, 2026
    EPS:Oct 8, 2025
    EPSS Score:0.00039
    CVSS Score:3.3

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Gnu
    Product
    Binutils

    Exploits

    https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33499https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33499#c2

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