TI-2025-42909 Aliases CVE-2025-69652 GHSA-c4wj-p3m6-6483

GNU Binutils thru 2.46 readelf contains a vulnerability that leads to an abort (SIGABRT)…

MEDIUM 61CWE-460Published 2026-03-06 · Updated 2026-03-09

Key facts

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

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00202 10th 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-2025-69652
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-c4wj-p3m6-6483
2026-11-06 Affected versions changed · Red Hat

References

Exploit 1

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33701

Patch 1

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=44b79abd0fa12e7947252eb4c6e5d16ed6033e01

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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