Issued at: 2026-01-23
Updated at: 2026-01-28
Synopsis
Moderate: binutils security update
Description
The binutils packages provide a collection of binary utilities for the manipulation of object code in various object file formats. It includes the ar, as, gprof, ld, nm, objcopy, objdump, ranlib, readelf, size, strings, strip, and addr2line utilities.
Security Fix(es):
* binutils: GNU Binutils ld elflink.c elf_gc_sweep memory corruption (CVE-2025-5244)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 10 Release Notes linked from the References section.