CVE-2025-69652 Affecting binutils package, versions <2.46.1-r0


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (7th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-WOLFILATEST-BINUTILS-17253304
  • published9 Jun 2026
  • disclosed6 Mar 2026

Introduced: 6 Mar 2026

CVE-2025-69652  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Wolfi binutils to version 2.46.1-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 vulnerability that leads to an abort (SIGABRT) when processing a crafted ELF binary with malformed DWARF abbrev or debug information. Due to incomplete state cleanup in process_debug_info(), an invalid debug_info_p state may propagate into DWARF attribute parsing routines. When certain malformed attributes result in an unexpected data length of zero, byte_get_little_endian() triggers a fatal abort. No evidence of memory corruption or code execution was observed; the impact is limited to denial of service.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1