CVE-2025-0840

Publication date 29 January 2025

Last updated 27 February 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.0 · Medium

Score breakdown

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in GNU Binutils up to 2.43. This affects the function disassemble_bytes of the file binutils/objdump.c. The manipulation of the argument buf leads to stack-based buffer overflow. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 2.44 is able to address this issue. The identifier of the patch is baac6c221e9d69335bf41366a1c7d87d8ab2f893. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
binutils 24.10 oracular
Fixed 2.43.1-4ubuntu1.1
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 2.42-4ubuntu2.4
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2.38-4ubuntu2.7
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2.34-6ubuntu1.10
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation

Notes

seth-arnold

binutils isn't safe for untrusted inputs.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.0 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact Low
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L