CVE-2025-1371

Publication date 17 February 2025

Last updated 6 November 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A vulnerability has been found in GNU elfutils 0.192 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function handle_dynamic_symtab of the file readelf.c of the component eu-read. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The patch is identified as b38e562a4c907e08171c76b8b2def8464d5a104a. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
elfutils	25.04 plucky	Fixed 0.192-4ubuntu1
	24.10 oracular	Fixed 0.191-2ubuntu0.1
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 0.190-1.1ubuntu0.1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
elfutils	Upstream: ?id=b38

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-7369-1
elfutils vulnerabilities
24 March 2025