Description

A weakness has been identified in GNU Binutils 2.45. The affected element is the function vfinfo of the file ldmisc.c. Executing a manipulation can lead to out-of-bounds read. The attack can only be executed locally. The exploit has been made available to the public and could be used for attacks. This patch is called 16357. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue.

INFO

Published Date :

2025-10-16T15:32:11.651Z

Last Modified :

2026-02-24T07:00:36.056Z

Source :

VulDB
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-11840 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Gnu
  • Binutils
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2025-11840.

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https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11840 cve-icon
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16351 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16357 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33455 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.328775 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://vuldb.com/?id.328775 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://vuldb.com/?submit.661281 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-11840 cve-icon
https://www.gnu.org/ cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
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