ALPINE-CVE-2025-3198

ALPINE-CVE-2025-3198 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Alpine:v3.22	binutils	2.26-r0, 2.44-r0, 2.43.1-r1
Alpine:v3.23	binutils	2.44-r1, 2.24-r4, 2.25-r0
Alpine:v3.21	binutils	2.43.1-r2, 2.43.1-r1, 2.43.1-r0

Timeline

Apr 4, 2025 CVE Published
Dec 3, 2025 CVE Updated
Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch

References

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-3198 advisory

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