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UBUNTU-CVE-2025-69649 (CVE-2025-69649)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-03-06 19:16 – Updated: 2026-04-22 07:57 – Source website

Details

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.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-69649	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-69649	REPORT
	https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33697	REPORT
	https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-…	REPORT

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            "binary_version": "2.45-7ubuntu1.2"
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      "score": "medium",
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CVE-2025-69649 (GCVE-0-2025-69649)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-06 00:00 – Updated: 2026-03-10 02:43

Summary

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-03-10 02:42 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33697
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-…

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