CVE-2025-69645: Binutils objdump contains a denial-of-service vulnerability when processing a crafted binary with malformed DWARF debug information. A logic error in the handling of DWARF compilation units can result in an invalid offset_size value being used inside byte_get_little_endian, leading to an abort (SIGABRT). The issue was observed in binutils 2.44. A local attacker can trigger the crash by supplying a malicious input file.
Overview
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 5.5)
- CVSS Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Exploit Status
- Not Exploited
- Patch Tuesday
- 2026-Mar
- Released
- 2026-03-11
- EPSS Score
- 0.01% (percentile: 2.5%)
Affected Products (2)
Open Source Software
- azl3 binutils 2.41-10 on Azure Linux 3.0
- cbl2 binutils 2.37-20 on CBL Mariner 2.0
Revision History
- 2026-03-11: Information published.