A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in GNU Binutils 2.43. Affected is the function xstrdup of the file xstrdup.c of the component ld. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory leak vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-401. The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory. This is going to have an impact on availability.

The advisory is shared for download at sourceware.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-1152. The exploitability is told to be difficult. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details and a public exploit are known. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1499.

The exploit is shared for download at sourceware.org. It is declared as proof-of-concept. 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." The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 232164 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-1152), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (232164). VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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• Programming Tool Software

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• GNU

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• Binutils

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• 2.43

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• open-source

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