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.

Metrics

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact Low

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact Low

Vulnerable System Availability Impact Low

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Affected Vendors & Products

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References
Link Providers
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5244 cve-icon
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16010 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32858 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=d1458933830456e54223d9fc61f0d9b3a19256f5 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.310346 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://vuldb.com/?id.310346 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://vuldb.com/?submit.584634 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-5244 cve-icon
https://www.gnu.org/ cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
History

Wed, 28 May 2025 03:45:00 +0000

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References
Metrics threat_severity

None

 threat_severity

Moderate

Tue, 27 May 2025 14:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Tue, 27 May 2025 13:15:00 +0000

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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.
Title GNU Binutils ld elflink.c elf_gc_sweep memory corruption
Weaknesses CWE-119
References
Metrics cvssV2_0

{'score': 4.3, 'vector': 'AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P'}

cvssV3_0

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulDB

Published: 2025-05-27T13:00:14.904Z

Updated: 2025-05-27T13:32:03.140Z

Reserved: 2025-05-27T08:07:03.937Z

Link: CVE-2025-5244

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-05-27T13:31:56.187Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-05-27T13:15:21.760

Modified: 2025-05-28T15:01:30.720

Link: CVE-2025-5244

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2025-05-27T13:00:14Z

Links: CVE-2025-5244 - Bugzilla