CVE-2025-8224

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-8224
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-8224.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-8224
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-07-27T05:32:06.926Z
Modified
2026-07-08T08:11:11.472922372Z
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 BFD Library elf.c bfd_elf_get_str_section null pointer dereference
Details

A vulnerability has been found in GNU Binutils 2.44 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function bfdelfgetstrsection of the file bfd/elf.c of the component BFD Library. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The name of the patch is db856d41004301b3a56438efd957ef5cabb91530. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/8xxx/CVE-2025-8224.json",
    "cna_assigner": "VulDB",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-404",
        "CWE-476"
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

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

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
Events
Introduced
815d9a14cbbb3b81843f7566222c87fb22e7255d
Last affected
815d9a14cbbb3b81843f7566222c87fb22e7255d
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.44:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": [
        "AFFECTED_FIELD",
        "CPE_STRING"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.44"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.44"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.44
Other
binutils-2_44

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-8224.json"