CVE-2025-69652

Severity
6.2MEDIUM
EPSS
0.0%
top 96.38%
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 vulnerability that leads to an abort (SIGABRT) when processing a crafted ELF binary with malformed DWARF abbrev or debug information. Due to incomplete state cleanup in process_debug_info(), an invalid debug_info_p state may propagate into DWARF attribute parsing routines. When certain malformed attributes result in an unexpected data length of zero, byte_get_little_endian() triggers a fatal abort. No evidence of memory corruption or code execution was o

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.5 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages1 packages

NVDgnu/binutils2.46

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-c4wj-p3m6-6483: GNU Binutils thru 22026-03-06
OSV
CVE-2025-69652: GNU Binutils thru 22026-03-06
CVEList
CVE-2025-69652: GNU Binutils thru 22026-03-06

📋Vendor Advisories

3
Microsoft
GNU Binutils thru 2.46 readelf contains a vulnerability that leads to an abort (SIGABRT) when processing a crafted ELF binary with malformed DWARF abbrev or debug information. Due to incomplete state 2026-03-10
Red Hat
binutils: abort in readelf via crafted ELF binary with malformed DWARF abbrev or debug information2026-03-06
Debian
CVE-2025-69652: binutils - GNU Binutils thru 2.46 readelf contains a vulnerability that leads to an abort (...2025

🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
Wiz
CVE-2025-69652 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz

💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2025-69652 mingw-binutils: abort in readelf via crafted ELF binary with malformed DWARF abbrev or debug information [fedora-all]2026-03-16
CVE-2025-69652 (MEDIUM CVSS 6.2) | GNU Binutils thru 2.46 readelf cont | cvebase.io