# CVE-2025-69651

## Summary

- **CVE ID:** CVE-2025-69651
- **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 vulnerability that leads to an invalid pointer free when processing a crafted ELF binary with malformed relocation or symbol data. If dump_relocations returns early due to parsing errors, the internal all_relocations array may remain partially uninitialized. Later, process_got_section_contents() may attempt to free an invalid r_symbol pointer, triggering memory corruption checks in glibc and causing the program to terminate with SIGABRT. No evidence of further memory corruption or code execution was observed; the impact is limited to denial of service.

## Affected Products

- n/a — n/a (n/a)

## References

- [CNA](https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=ea4bc025abdba85a90e26e13f551c16a44bfa921)
- [CNA](https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33700)
- [CNA](https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33698)
- [CNA](https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=81e90cf63a10ad11772c2437c8f2a88f1a00c739)
- [CNA](https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=ea4bc025abdba85a90e26e13f551c16a44bfa92)

## Exploitation Prediction (EPSS)

- **EPSS Score:** 0.24%
- **EPSS Percentile:** 15.3

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