CVE-2025-69649

HIGH

GNU Binutils thru 2.46 - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 2.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-476
Status published

Affected Products (1)

gnu/binutils < 2.46

Timeline

Published Mar 06, 2026
Tracked Since Mar 07, 2026