A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function _bfd_elf_gc_mark_rsec of the file elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. The attack may be initiated remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The patch is named f9978defb6fab0bd8583942d97c112b0932ac814. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function
    _bfd_elf_gc_mark_rsec of the file elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to heap-based     buffer overflow. The attack may be initiated remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The     exploitation is known to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The     patch is named f9978defb6fab0bd8583942d97c112b0932ac814. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this     issue. (CVE-2025-1176)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The version of binutils / gdb installed on the remote Azure Linux 3.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2025-1176 advisory.

  - A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function
    _bfd_elf_gc_mark_rsec of the file elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to heap-based     buffer overflow. The attack May be initiated remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The     exploitation is known to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and May be used. The     patch is named f9978defb6fab0bd8583942d97c112b0932ac814. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this     issue. (CVE-2025-1176)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of binutils / gdb installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2025-1176 advisory.

  - A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function
    _bfd_elf_gc_mark_rsec of the file elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to heap-based     buffer overflow. The attack May be initiated remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The     exploitation is known to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and May be used. The     patch is named f9978defb6fab0bd8583942d97c112b0932ac814. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this     issue. (CVE-2025-1176)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
232088	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-1176	Nessus	Misc.	low
216785	Azure Linux 3.0 Security Update: binutils / gdb (CVE-2025-1176)	Nessus	Azure Linux Local Security Checks	low
216365	CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: binutils / gdb (CVE-2025-1176)	Nessus	MarinerOS Local Security Checks	low

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