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.

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Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact None

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact None

Vulnerable System Availability Impact Low

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

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References
Link Providers
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-3198 cve-icon
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32716 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32716#c0 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=ba6ad3a18cb26b79e0e3b84c39f707535bbc344d cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.303151 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://vuldb.com/?id.303151 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://vuldb.com/?submit.545773 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-3198 cve-icon
https://www.gnu.org/ cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
History

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 21:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:15:00 +0000

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 threat_severity

Low

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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.
Title GNU Binutils objdump bucomm.c display_info memory leak
Weaknesses CWE-401
CWE-404
References
Metrics cvssV2_0

{'score': 1.7, 'vector': 'AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P'}

cvssV3_0

{'score': 3.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 3.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 4.8, 'vector': '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'}
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulDB

Published:

Updated: 2025-04-04T20:21:07.450Z

Reserved: 2025-04-03T11:14:11.186Z

Link: CVE-2025-3198

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-04-04T14:26:17.029Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-04-04T02:15:18.803

Modified: 2025-04-07T14:18:15.560

Link: CVE-2025-3198

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2025-04-04T01:31:08Z

Links: CVE-2025-3198 - Bugzilla