CVE-2025-69649 Affecting binutils package, versions <2.46-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-WOLFILATEST-BINUTILS-17162345
  • published4 Jun 2026
  • disclosed6 Mar 2026

Introduced: 6 Mar 2026

CVE-2025-69649  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Wolfi binutils to version 2.46-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

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

GNU Binutils thru 2.46 readelf contains a null pointer dereference vulnerability when processing a crafted ELF binary with malformed header fields. During relocation processing, an invalid or null section pointer may be passed into display_relocations(), resulting in a segmentation fault (SIGSEGV) and abrupt termination. No evidence of memory corruption beyond the null pointer dereference, nor any possibility of code execution, was observed.

CVSS Base Scores

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