A weakness has been identified in GNU Binutils 2.45. The affected element is the function vfinfo of the file ldmisc.c. Executing 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 exploited. This patch is called 16357. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue.

Metrics

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact None

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact None

Vulnerable System Availability Impact Low

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00013.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

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Fixes

Solution

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Workaround

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References
Link Providers
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
History

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:15:00 +0000

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Metrics threat_severity

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 threat_severity

Low

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:45:00 +0000

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Description A weakness has been identified in GNU Binutils 2.45. The affected element is the function vfinfo of the file ldmisc.c. Executing 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 exploited. This patch is called 16357. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue.
Title GNU Binutils ldmisc.c vfinfo out-of-bounds
Weaknesses CWE-119
CWE-125
References
Metrics cvssV2_0

{'score': 1.7, 'vector': 'AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C'}

cvssV3_0

{'score': 3.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 3.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P'}
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulDB

Published:

Updated: 2025-10-16T18:12:26.436Z

Reserved: 2025-10-16T08:36:17.235Z

Link: CVE-2025-11840

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-10-16T18:12:03.442Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-10-16T16:15:37.003

Modified: 2025-10-16T16:15:37.003

Link: CVE-2025-11840

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2025-10-16T15:32:11Z

Links: CVE-2025-11840 - Bugzilla

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