CVE-2025-1180

Publication date 11 February 2025

Last updated 28 April 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in GNU Binutils 2.43. This affects the function _bfd_elf_write_section_eh_frame of the file bfd/elf-eh-frame.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. 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. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
binutils	26.04 LTS resolute	Not affected
	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 2.42-4ubuntu2.5
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2.38-4ubuntu2.8
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2.34-6ubuntu1.11+esm1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.9+esm5
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm13
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.24-5ubuntu14.2+esm7

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Notes

seth-arnold

binutils isn't safe for untrusted inputs.

john-breton

Currently waiting for upstream to confirm the fix commit. The patch for this vulnerability was included in USN-7899-1

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	3.1 · Low
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L