CVE-2025-69649NULL 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

NVDgnu/binutils2.46

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
OSV
CVE-2025-69649: GNU Binutils thru 22026-03-06
CVEList
CVE-2025-69649: GNU Binutils thru 22026-03-06
GHSA
GHSA-63qm-v5pw-47h7: GNU Binutils thru 22026-03-06

📋Vendor Advisories

3
Microsoft
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 sec2026-03-10
Red Hat
binutils: NULL pointer dereference in readelf via crafted ELF binary with malformed header fields2026-03-06
Debian
CVE-2025-69649: binutils - GNU Binutils thru 2.46 readelf contains a null pointer dereference vulnerability...2025

🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
Wiz
CVE-2025-69649 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz

💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2025-69649 mingw-binutils: NULL pointer dereference in readelf via crafted ELF binary with malformed header fields [fedora-all]2026-03-16
CVE-2025-69649 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Binutils | cvebase