vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2025-5244: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P) | May 27, 2025 | Aug 27, 2025 | Dec 22, 2025 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 27, 2025
Added
Aug 27, 2025
Modified
Dec 22, 2025
Description
A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils up to 2.44. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function elf_gc_sweep of the file bfd/elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 2.45 is able to address this issue. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.
Solution
alpine-linux-upgrade-binutils
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