CVE-2025-1149: GNU Binutils ld Memory Leak – Azure
🟢 Low | Source: Microsoft Security Response Center CVE-2025-1149 is a memory leak vulnerability in the GNU Binutils linker tool (ld), specifically within the xstrdup function in xmalloc.c. While memory leaks can cause service instability or denial of service, this issue has been flagged by Microsoft in the context of Azure, suggesting relevance to workloads or toolchains running on Azure infrastructure. The practical security impact is generally low unless an attacker can trigger repeated allocations to exhaust memory resources. ...