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CVE-2025-69649 on CTRL-OS 24.05

Packages: binutils, binutils-unwrapped

Status: New

CVE Information

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.

Updates

2026-04-07 18:35 CEST

Metadata changes:

  • Status for package binutils: “New”
  • Status for package binutils-unwrapped: “New”