CVE-2025-69651 Affecting binutils-gold package, versions <2.46-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-MINIMOSLATEST-BINUTILSGOLD-16917571
  • published28 May 2026
  • disclosed6 Mar 2026

Introduced: 6 Mar 2026

CVE-2025-69651  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Minimos:latest binutils-gold to version 2.46-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils-gold package and not the binutils-gold package as distributed by Minimos. See How to fix? for Minimos:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

GNU Binutils thru 2.46 readelf contains a vulnerability that leads to an invalid pointer free when processing a crafted ELF binary with malformed relocation or symbol data. If dump_relocations returns early due to parsing errors, the internal all_relocations array may remain partially uninitialized. Later, process_got_section_contents() may attempt to free an invalid r_symbol pointer, triggering memory corruption checks in glibc and causing the program to terminate with SIGABRT. No evidence of further memory corruption or code execution was observed; the impact is limited to denial of service. NOTE: this is disputed by third parties because the observed behavior occurred only in pre-release code and did not affect any tagged version.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1