NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting binutils package, versions [0,]
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- published8 Mar 2026
- disclosed6 Mar 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 6 Mar 2026
CVE-2025-69649 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference in the readelf process when parsing a specially crafted ELF binary with malformed header fields. An attacker can cause the application to crash by convincing a user to process a malicious file. This is only exploitable if a user processes an untrusted ELF binary with readelf.
Workaround
This vulnerability can be mitigated by avoiding the processing of untrusted, unverified, or externally supplied ELF binaries with the readelf program.