CVE-2023-25586: GNU Binutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in Binutils. A logic fail in the bfd_init_section_decompress_status function may lead to the use of an uninitialized variable that can cause a crash and local denial of service.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.40 only

Published 2023-09-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.