PT-2025-14823 · Gnu+6 · Gnu Binutils+6

Haoxin Tu · Published 2025-02-19 · Updated 2026-04-20 · CVE-2025-3198

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU Binutils versions 2.43 through 2.44

Description A memory leak issue has been identified, affecting the display info function of the binutils/bucomm.c file in the objdump component. This issue can be exploited locally, leading to a memory leak. The exploit has been publicly disclosed.

Recommendations For GNU Binutils versions 2.43 through 2.44, apply the patch named ba6ad3a18cb26b79e0e3b84c39f707535bbc344d to fix this issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the display info function of the objdump component until the patch is applied.

Exploit

Fix

Memory Leak

Improper Resource Release

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-401

CWE-404

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2025-11378

BDU:2025-10923

CVE-2025-3198

ECHO-9F76-C987-DEF2

OESA-2025-1578

OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15651-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2025:20150-1

SUSE-SU-2025:21195-1

SUSE-SU-2025:21197-1

SUSE-SU-2025:4096-1

USN-7847-1

USN-7899-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Astra Linux

Debian

Gnu Binutils

Linuxmint

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 119

• 🔥 https://vuldb.com/?submit.545773 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32716 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32716#c0 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-7899-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-7545 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-11082 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-3198 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-7847-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wiki.astralinux.ru/astra-linux-se38-bulletin-2026-0126SE38 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-3198 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-11840 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wiki.astralinux.ru/astra-linux-se17-bulletin-2026-0421SE17 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-0840 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/OESA-2025-1578 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-3198 · Vendor Advisory