CVE-2025-11840

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-11840
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-11840.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-11840
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-10-16T15:32:11Z
Modified
2026-08-28T11:30:35Z
Severity
  • 1.9 (Low) CVSS_V4 - 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 CVSS Calculator
Summary
GNU Binutils ldmisc.c vfinfo out-of-bounds
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "VulDB",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-119",
        "CWE-125"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/11xxx/CVE-2025-11840.json",
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "2.45"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "2.45"
                }
            ],
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
Events
Introduced
2bc7af1ff7732451b6a7b09462a815c3284f9613
Last Affected
2bc7af1ff7732451b6a7b09462a815c3284f9613
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.45:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.45"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.45"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.45
Other
binutils-2_45

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-11840.json"