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
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
3📋Vendor Advisories
3Microsoft▶
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 information↗2026-03-06
Debian▶
CVE-2025-69652: binutils - GNU Binutils thru 2.46 readelf contains a vulnerability that leads to an abort (...↗2025
🕵️Threat Intelligence
1💬Community
1Bugzilla▶
CVE-2025-69652 mingw-binutils: abort in readelf via crafted ELF binary with malformed DWARF abbrev or debug information [fedora-all]↗2026-03-16