- 4.8MediumCVSS base score
- 0.29%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 79% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
Description
A vulnerability has been found in GNU Binutils 2.43/2.44 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function display_info of the file binutils/bucomm.c of the component objdump. The manipulation leads to memory leak. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The patch is named ba6ad3a18cb26b79e0e3b84c39f707535bbc344d. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. 2 references of the record are tagged as an exploit. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Show the exploits2
References tagged exploit2 references
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32716 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingexploit
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32716#c0 (opens in a new tab)exploitissue-tracking
Timeline
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By VulDB
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 19 months later
· 19 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Medium4.8 | 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 |
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Low3.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Low3.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 2.0 | Low1.7 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 4.0 | Medium4.8 | 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:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.29% · top 79% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.8.
Affected products
References
References9
- VDB-303151 | GNU Binutils objdump bucomm.c display_info memory leak (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrytechnical-description
- VDB-303151 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, IOA) (opens in a new tab)signaturepermissions-required
- Submit #545773 | GNU Library Objdump in Binutil 2.44 and 2.43 (also other possible downward versions) Memory Leak (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32716 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingexploit
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32716#c0 (opens in a new tab)exploitissue-tracking
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=ba6ad3a18cb26b79e0e3b84c39f707535bbc344d (opens in a new tab)patch
- https://www.gnu.org/ (opens in a new tab)product
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-265688.html (opens in a new tab)
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-9672 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2025-3198)Record last updated .