CVE-2025-69645

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2026-03-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-400

Description

Binutils objdump contains a denial-of-service vulnerability when processing a crafted binary with malformed DWARF debug information. A logic error in the handling of DWARF compilation units can result in an invalid offset_size value being used inside byte_get_little_endian, leading to an abort (SIGABRT). The issue was observed in binutils 2.44. A local attacker can trigger the crash by supplying a malicious input file.

Affected products

GNU Binutils: 2.44

References

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33637
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=cdb728d4da6184631989b192f1022c219dea7677

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