# CVE-2025-69649

## Summary

- **CVE ID:** CVE-2025-69649
- **Severity:** MEDIUM
- **CVSS Score:** 5.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
- **CWE:** N/A
- **Published:** Mar 6, 2026
- **Last Modified:** Sep 14, 2026

## Description

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.

## Affected Products

- n/a — n/a (n/a)

## References

- [CNA](https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33697)
- [CNA](https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=66a3492ce68e1ae45b2489bd9a815c39ea5d7f66)

## Exploitation Prediction (EPSS)

- **EPSS Score:** 0.26%
- **EPSS Percentile:** 17.5

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_Exported from OnDuty AI Vulnerability Intelligence on 2026-09-18._