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.

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https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-69652 cve-icon
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33701 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=44b79abd0fa12e7947252eb4c6e5d16ed6033e01 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-69652 cve-icon
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Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title binutils: abort in readelf via crafted ELF binary with malformed DWARF abbrev or debug information
Weaknesses CWE-617
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{'score': 3.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}

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Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:45:00 +0000

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Description 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2026-03-06T18:25:51.607Z

Reserved: 2026-01-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2025-69652

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-03-06T19:16:10.907

Modified: 2026-03-06T19:16:10.907

Link: CVE-2025-69652

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Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2026-03-06T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2025-69652 - Bugzilla

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