CVE-2025-69649 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Binutils
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 90.52%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMar 6
Latest updateMar 16
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages1 packages
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
3📋Vendor Advisories
3Microsoft▶
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 sec↗2026-03-10
Red Hat▶
binutils: NULL pointer dereference in readelf via crafted ELF binary with malformed header fields↗2026-03-06
Debian▶
CVE-2025-69649: binutils - GNU Binutils thru 2.46 readelf contains a null pointer dereference vulnerability...↗2025
🕵️Threat Intelligence
1💬Community
1Bugzilla▶
CVE-2025-69649 mingw-binutils: NULL pointer dereference in readelf via crafted ELF binary with malformed header fields [fedora-all]↗2026-03-16