CVE-2025-1178

Summary

CVE-2025-1178 is a recently identified vulnerability affecting the GNU Binutils 2.43. This issue, located in the bfd_putl64 function of libbfd.c within the ld component, results in memory corruption. The exploitation of this vulnerability can be carried out remotely, but the complexity and difficulty of an attack are considered high. The exploit for this vulnerability has been made public, increasing the risk of potential attacks. To mitigate this risk, it is strongly recommended to apply the patch with the identifier 75086e9de1707281172cc77f178e7949a4414ed0 to address the memory corruption issue.

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