CVE-2025-69649: 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.
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
- 0.03% (percentile: 8.4%)
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.