A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43. It has been classified as problematic. This affects the function
xstrdup of the file libiberty/xmalloc.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory leak.
This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-1149. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. Furthermore, there is an exploit available.
The code maintainer explains: “I’m not going to commit some of the leak fixes I’ve been working on to the 2.44 branch due to concern that would destabilise ld. All of the reported leaks in this bugzilla have been fixed on binutils master.”
It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
The code maintainer explains: “I’m not going to commit some of the leak fixes I’ve been working on to the 2.44 branch due to concern that would destabilise ld. All of the reported leaks in this bugzilla have been fixed on binutils master.”
