Microsoft security update for CVE-2025-0840
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products5
- azl3 binutils 2.41-4 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 binutils 2.41-5 on Azure Linux 3.0
- cbl2 binutils 2.37-11 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cbl2 binutils 2.37-14 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cbl2 binutils 2.37-14 on CBL-Mariner 2.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 updates
2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 2.37-11 |
| — | Security Update | 2.41-4 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2025-0840
- EchelonGraph score
- 5.0 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in GNU Binutils up to 2.43. This affects the function disassemble_bytes of the file binutils/objdump.c. The manipulation of the argument buf leads to stack-based buffer overflow. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 2.44 is able to address this issue. The identifier of the patch is baac6c221e9d69335bf41366a1c7d87d8ab2f893. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.
Published by VulDB, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2025-0840, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).