CVE-2025-69649: GNU Binutils

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: up to and including 2.46

Published 2026-03-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.