A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function bfd_putl64 of the file libbfd.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory corruption.

This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-1178. The attack can be launched remotely. Furthermore, there is an exploit available.

It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.