ubuntu-cve-2025-69649
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2026-03-06 19:16
Modified
2026-04-22 07:57
Summary
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
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  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
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          {
            "binary_name": "binutils",
            "binary_version": "2.45-7ubuntu1.2"
          },
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            "binary_name": "binutils-aarch64-linux-gnu",
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          },
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          },
          {
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          },
          {
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          {
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            "binary_name": "libgprofng0",
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          },
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            "binary_name": "libsframe2",
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        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:25.10",
        "name": "binutils",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/binutils@2.45-7ubuntu1.2?arch=source\u0026distro=questing"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
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            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
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        "2.44.50.20250602-0ubuntu1",
        "2.44.50.20250604-0ubuntu2",
        "2.44.50.20250616-0ubuntu1",
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        "2.45-7ubuntu1.1",
        "2.45-7ubuntu1.2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "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.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2025-69649",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:57:27Z",
  "published": "2026-03-06T19:16:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-69649"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-69649"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33697"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=66a3492ce68e1ae45b2489bd9a815c39ea5d7f66"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2025-69649"
  ]
}



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