Access of Uninitialized Pointer Affecting binutils package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-BINUTILS-15440499
  • published8 Mar 2026
  • disclosed6 Mar 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Mar 2026

NewCVE-2025-69651  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-824  (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 Access of Uninitialized Pointer in the process_got_section_contents function when handling a specially crafted ELF binary containing malformed relocation or symbol data. An attacker can cause the application to terminate abnormally by supplying such a crafted binary, resulting in a denial of service.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1