CVE-2025-1147

Publication date 10 February 2025

Last updated 19 November 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

3.1 · Low

Score breakdown

Description

A vulnerability has been found in GNU Binutils 2.43 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function __sanitizer::internal_strlen of the file binutils/nm.c of the component nm. The manipulation of the argument const leads to buffer overflow. The attack can be launched remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
binutils 25.10 questing
Not affected
25.04 plucky
Vulnerable
24.10 oracular Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
24.04 LTS noble
Vulnerable
22.04 LTS jammy
Vulnerable
20.04 LTS focal
Vulnerable
18.04 LTS bionic
Vulnerable
16.04 LTS xenial
Vulnerable
14.04 LTS trusty
Vulnerable

Notes

seth-arnold

binutils isn't safe for untrusted inputs.

Patch details

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Package Patch details
binutils

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-7847-1
    • GNU binutils vulnerabilities
    • 29 October 2025

Other references