TI-2025-42906 Aliases CVE-2025-69649 GHSA-63qm-v5pw-47h7

GNU Binutils thru 2.46 readelf contains a null pointer dereference vulnerability when…

HIGH 66CWE-476Published 2026-03-06 · Updated 2026-03-10

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · None · High
Fix status: Partial Red Hat: 1 fixed, 7 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-476.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00308 23rd percentileScored 2026-11-07

Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD

Fix Partial Red Hat: 1 advisoryRed Hat: 1 fixed, 7 without a fix

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: Poc
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
—	—	all versions	—	No fix listed	CNA

— Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils::::::::	up to 2.46	Vulnerable	GNU

cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions up to 2.46 Vulnerable ·GNU

Remediation

Red Hat 1 advisory

RHSA-2026:7098 Released 2026-04-08 · Red Hat rating Moderate
Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs bug fix and enhancement update
- Red Hat Hardened Images binutils-2.45.1-5.hum1@aarch64, binutils-2.45.1-5.hum1@src, binutils-2.45.1-5.hum1@x86_64 +6

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Low. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Product	Status	Plan or fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10	Affected	No fix yet: Fix deferred
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Affected	No fix yet: Fix deferred
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Affected	No fix yet: Fix deferred
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Affected	No fix yet: Fix deferred
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Affected	No fix yet: Fix deferred
Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI)	Affected	—
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4	Affected	No fix yet: Fix deferred
Red Hat Hardened Images	Fixed	RHSA-2026:7098

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-69649
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-63qm-v5pw-47h7
2026-11-06 Affected versions changed · Red Hat

References

Exploit 1

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33697

Patch 1

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=66a3492ce68e1ae45b2489bd9a815c39ea5d7f66

TI-2020-13695 An issue was discovered in binutils libbfd.c 2.36 relating to the auxiliary symbol data… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
TI-2025-42907 GNU Binutils thru 2.46 readelf contains a double free vulnerability when processing a… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
TI-2025-41071 An issue was discovered in function d_print_comp_inner in file cp-demangle.c in BinUtils… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
TI-2025-41069 An issue was discovered in function d_discriminator in file cp-demangle.c in BinUtils… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
TI-2025-41068 A buffer overflow vulnerability in function gnu_special in file cplus-dem.c in BinUtils… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
TI-2021-21105 Heap-based Buffer Overflow in function bfd_getl32 in Binutils objdump 3.37. CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5

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Sources

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