{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2025-69649","details":"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.","modified":"2026-04-22T16:07:35.924619Z","published":"2026-03-06T19:16:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2025-69649"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-69649"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-69649"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33697"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=66a3492ce68e1ae45b2489bd9a815c39ea5d7f66"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"binutils","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:25.10","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/binutils@2.45-7ubuntu1.2?arch=source&distro=questing"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["2.44-3ubuntu1","2.44.50.20250602-0ubuntu1","2.44.50.20250604-0ubuntu2","2.44.50.20250616-0ubuntu1","2.44.50.20250707-1ubuntu1","2.45-1ubuntu1","2.45-3ubuntu3","2.45-6ubuntu1","2.45-7ubuntu1","2.45-7ubuntu1.1","2.45-7ubuntu1.2"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"binutils","binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"binutils-aarch64-linux-gnu","binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2","binary_name":"binutils-alpha-linux-gnu"},{"binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2","binary_name":"binutils-arc-linux-gnu"},{"binary_name":"binutils-arm-linux-gnueabi","binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"binutils-arm-linux-gnueabihf","binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"binutils-common","binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"binutils-for-build","binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"binutils-for-host","binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2","binary_name":"binutils-hppa-linux-gnu"},{"binary_name":"binutils-hppa64-linux-gnu","binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"binutils-i686-gnu","binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"binutils-i686-linux-gnu","binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"binutils-loongarch64-linux-gnu","binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"binutils-m68k-linux-gnu","binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2","binary_name":"binutils-multiarch"},{"binary_name":"binutils-powerpc-linux-gnu","binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"binutils-powerpc64-linux-gnu","binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"binutils-powerpc64le-linux-gnu","binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"binutils-riscv64-linux-gnu","binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"binutils-s390x-linux-gnu","binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"binutils-sh4-linux-gnu","binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"binutils-source","binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"binutils-sparc-linux-gnu","binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"binutils-sparc64-linux-gnu","binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"binutils-x86-64-gnu","binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2","binary_name":"binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu"},{"binary_name":"binutils-x86-64-linux-gnux32","binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"libbinutils","binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2","binary_name":"libctf-nobfd0"},{"binary_name":"libctf0","binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"libgprofng0","binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2"},{"binary_name":"libsframe2","binary_version":"2.45-7ubuntu1.2"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2025/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-69649.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}