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CVE-2025-69647 json

GNU Binutils thru 2.45.1 readelf contains a denial-of-service vulnerability when processing a crafted binary with malformed DWARF loclists…

published 2026-03-09 8 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-208411

cvss
6.2
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 7%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

GNU Binutils thru 2.45.1 readelf contains a denial-of-service vulnerability when processing a crafted binary with malformed DWARF loclists data. A logic flaw in the DWARF parsing code can cause readelf to repeatedly print the same table output without making forward progress, resulting in an unbounded output loop that never terminates unless externally interrupted. A local attacker can trigger this behavior by supplying a malicious input file, causing excessive CPU and I/O usage and preventing readelf from completing its analysis.

Patch / fix

  • binutils Debian 14 2.46-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-69647

  • binutils hummingbird 1 2.45.1-5.hum1
  • binutils-gold hummingbird 1 2.45.1-5.hum1
  • binutils-gprofng hummingbird 1 2.45.1-5.hum1

red hat advisories RHSA-2026:7098

  • binutils openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.47-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:11932-1

  • binutils Azure Linux 3.0 2.41-11

azure linux advisories AZL-79826

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-69647 updated cvss 3.3

binutils: infinite loop in readelf via crafted binary with malformed DWARF loclists data

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 binutils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 gdb, binutils, gdb-gdbserver Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 gdb, binutils, gdb-headless, gdb-gdbserver, mingw-binutils, mingw32-binutils, +10 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 gdb, binutils, gdb-minimal, gdb-headless, binutils-gold, gdb-gdbserver, +10 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 gdb, binutils, mingw-binutils, mingw32-binutils, mingw64-binutils, gcc-toolset-15-binutils Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 rhcos
    affected: workaround, no fix available “To mitigate this vulnerability, do not process untrusted, unverified or externally supplied ELF binaries with the readelf program.”
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-dashboard-rhel9
    under investigation
  • Red Hat Hardened Images binutils 2.45.1-5.hum1, binutils-gold 2.45.1-5.hum1, binutils-gprofng 2.45.1-5.hum1
    fixed: vendor fix “To mitigate this vulnerability, do not process untrusted, unverified or externally supplied ELF binaries with the readelf program.” RHSA-2026:7098

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
8 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 7% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • sourceware.org https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33640 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition

References

Sources

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