Access of Uninitialized Pointer Affecting gdb-doc package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-GDBDOC-15439456
  • published7 Mar 2026
  • disclosed1 Jan 2025

Introduced: 1 Jan 2025

CVE-2025-69651  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-824  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 gdb-doc.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gdb-doc package and not the gdb-doc package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 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

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