CVE-2025-0840

medium

Description

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in GNU Binutils up to 2.43. This affects the function disassemble_bytes of the file binutils/objdump.c. The manipulation of the argument buf leads to stack-based buffer overflow. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 2.44 is able to address this issue. The identifier of the patch is baac6c221e9d69335bf41366a1c7d87d8ab2f893. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

References

https://www.gnu.org/

https://vuldb.com/?submit.485255

https://vuldb.com/?id.293997

https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.293997

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=baac6c221e9d69335bf41366a1c7d87d8ab2f893

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32560

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=15882

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-01-29

Updated: 2025-01-29

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Medium