CVE-2025-1147: GNU Binutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability has been found in GNU Binutils 2.43 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function __sanitizer::internal_strlen of the file binutils/nm.c of the component nm. The manipulation of the argument const leads to buffer overflow. The attack can be launched remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.43 only

Published 2025-02-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.