RHSA-2025:23306 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for binutils is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The binutils packages provide a collection of binary utilities for the manipulation of object code in various object file formats. It includes the ar, as, gprof, ld, nm, objcopy, objdump, ranlib, readelf, size, strings, strip, and addr2line utilities.

Security Fix(es):

• binutils: GNU Binutils Linker heap-based overflow (CVE-2025-11082)
• binutils: GNU Binutils Linker heap-based overflow (CVE-2025-11083)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 10 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 10 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 10 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 10 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2399943 - CVE-2025-11082 binutils: GNU Binutils Linker heap-based overflow
• BZ - 2399948 - CVE-2025-11083 binutils: GNU Binutils Linker heap-based overflow

CVEs

• CVE-2025-11082
• CVE-2025-11083

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate