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Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2025-1176: Medium priority package update for binutils

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 11, 2025
Added
Apr 30, 2025
Modified
Jul 17, 2025

Description

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.
A flaw was found in GNU Binutils. This vulnerability allows a heap-based buffer overflow via the _bfd_elf_gc_mark_rsec function.

Solutions

amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-binutilsamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-binutils-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-binutils-debugsourceamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-binutils-develamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-binutils-gprofngamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-binutils-gprofng-debuginfo
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