CVE-2025-8225 - CVE House

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Status published Medium CVE-2025-8225

GNU Binutils DWARF Section dwarf.c process_debug_info memory leak

4.8 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.44 and classified as problematic. This issue affects the function process_debug_info of the file binutils/dwarf.c of the component DWARF Section Handler. The manipulation leads to memory leak. Attacking locally is a requirement. The identifier of the patch is e51fdff7d2e538c0e5accdd65649ac68e6e0ddd4. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

arthurx (VulDB User)

References

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Affected Vendor

GNU

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Affected Software

Binutils

Vulnerable Versions:

2.44

Timeline

Official Publish: July 27th, 2025

Last Modified: July 28th, 2025

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-401 CWE-404

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact

T1562 Impair Defenses

Defense Evasion

T1498 Network Denial of Service

T1046 Network Service Discovery