CVE-2025-69650

CWE-4159 documents9 sources
Severity
7.5HIGH
EPSS
0.1%
top 70.73%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
GNU Binutils
Timeline
PublishedMar 6
Latest updateMar 16

Description

GNU Binutils thru 2.46 readelf contains a double free vulnerability when processing a crafted ELF binary with malformed relocation data. During GOT relocation handling, dump_relocations may return early without initializing the all_relocations array. As a result, process_got_section_contents() may pass an uninitialized r_symbol pointer to free(), leading to a double free and terminating the program with SIGABRT. No evidence of exploitable memory corruption or code execution was observed; the imp…

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

Patch: sourceware.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-6m68-w836-p72w: GNU Binutils thru 2↗2026-03-06
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CVEList
CVE-2025-69650: GNU Binutils thru 2↗2026-03-06
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OSV
CVE-2025-69650: GNU Binutils thru 2↗2026-03-06
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Microsoft
GNU Binutils thru 2.46 readelf contains a double free vulnerability when processing a crafted ELF binary with malformed relocation data. During GOT relocation handling, dump_relocations may return ear↗2026-03-10
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Red Hat
binutils: double free in readelf via crafted ELF binary with malformed relocation data↗2026-03-06
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Debian
CVE-2025-69650: binutils - GNU Binutils thru 2.46 readelf contains a double free vulnerability when process...↗2025
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🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
Wiz
CVE-2025-69650 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz↗
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2025-69650 mingw-binutils: double free in readelf via crafted ELF binary with malformed relocation data [fedora-all]↗2026-03-16
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CVE-2025-69650 (HIGH CVSS 7.5) | GNU Binutils thru 2.46 readelf cont | cvebase.io