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CVE-2025-0840VulnerabilityPublished

SUSE · Security update for binutils

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Mentioned vulnerabilities

Not known to be exploited · fixed in SUSE package updates : patch SUSE soon.

Data as of 13 Nov 2026, 18:40 UTC

Severity
High

Rated by Threat Radar · No CVSS score from NVD or the CNA

Patch
Available – fixed in 2.45

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 14 Nov 2025

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 13 Nov 2026.

What to do

AI-suggested

Apply the binutils update to version 2.45 as provided by the SUSE Product Security Team. This update includes fixes for multiple CVEs and other stability improvements. No additional mitigation steps are indicated beyond applying this official update.

Description

This security update for binutils addresses multiple issues including disabling '-z gcs=implicit' on aarch64 for old codestreams and incorporates numerous enhancements and fixes in version 2.45. It includes support for new CPU architectures and instruction sets, linker improvements, and several backported patches for multiple CVEs. The update also removes the gold linker and fixes a crash in the assembler with -gdwarf-5. The update is provided by the SUSE Product Security Team and targets the SUSE product.

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