CVE-2025-69649
HIGHGNU Binutils < 2.46 - Denial of Service via Malformed ELF Header Processing
Title source: llmDescription
GNU Binutils thru 2.46 readelf contains a null pointer dereference vulnerability when processing a crafted ELF binary with malformed header fields. During relocation processing, an invalid or null section pointer may be passed into display_relocations(), resulting in a segmentation fault (SIGSEGV) and abrupt termination. No evidence of memory corruption beyond the null pointer dereference, nor any possibility of code execution, was observed.
References (2)
Core 2
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0026
EPSS Percentile
16.8%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-476
Status
published
Products (1)
gnu/binutils
< 2.46
Published
Mar 06, 2026
Tracked Since
Mar 07, 2026