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CVE-2025-5244: 
NixOS vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-5244) was discovered in GNU Binutils versions up to 2.44, affecting the elfgcsweep function in the bfd/elflink.c file of the ld component. The vulnerability was disclosed on May 27, 2025, and has been classified as CWE-119 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer) (NVD, Wiz).

Technical details

The vulnerability involves memory corruption issues within the elfgcsweep function. It has received multiple severity ratings: CVSS v4.0 score of 4.8 (Medium), CVSS v3.1 score of 5.3 (Medium), and CVSS v2.0 score of 4.3 (Medium). The vulnerability requires local access to exploit, and the attack complexity is considered low (VulDB).

Impact

The vulnerability affects the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the system through memory corruption. When exploited, it can allow an attacker to perform operations on a memory buffer that can read from or write to memory locations outside of the intended boundary of the buffer (VulDB).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in GNU Binutils version 2.45. Users are strongly recommended to upgrade to this version to address the security issue (NVD).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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