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CVE-2025-69645

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.

Score
5.5 medium
Published
2026-03-06
Links
NVD · cve.org

Affected ports (16)

PortPackageVersionStatusMaintainer
devel/binutilsaarch64-binutils2.44,1unaddressedcy@FreeBSD.org
devel/binutilsaarch64-none-elf-binutils2.44,1unaddressedcy@FreeBSD.org
devel/binutilsamd64-binutils2.44,1unaddressedcy@FreeBSD.org
devel/binutilsarm-gnueabi-binutils2.44,1unaddressedcy@FreeBSD.org
devel/binutilsarm-none-eabi-binutils2.44,1unaddressedcy@FreeBSD.org
devel/binutilsavr-binutils2.44,1unaddressedcy@FreeBSD.org
devel/binutilsbinutils2.44,1unaddressedcy@FreeBSD.org
devel/binutilsi386-binutils2.44,1unaddressedcy@FreeBSD.org
devel/binutilsmingw32-binutils2.44,1unaddressedcy@FreeBSD.org
devel/binutilspowerpc-binutils2.44,1unaddressedcy@FreeBSD.org
devel/binutilspowerpc64-binutils2.44,1unaddressedcy@FreeBSD.org
devel/binutilspowerpc64le-binutils2.44,1unaddressedcy@FreeBSD.org
devel/binutilsriscv32-unknown-elf-binutils2.44,1unaddressedcy@FreeBSD.org
devel/binutilsriscv64-binutils2.44,1unaddressedcy@FreeBSD.org
devel/binutilsriscv64-none-elf-binutils2.44,1unaddressedcy@FreeBSD.org
devel/binutilss390x-binutils2.44,1unaddressedcy@FreeBSD.org

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  <vuln vid="FIXME (make newentry)">
    <topic>FIXME -- FIXME</topic>
    <affects>
      <package>
	<name>aarch64-binutils</name>
	<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
      </package>
      <package>
	<name>aarch64-none-elf-binutils</name>
	<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
      </package>
      <package>
	<name>amd64-binutils</name>
	<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
      </package>
      <package>
	<name>arm-gnueabi-binutils</name>
	<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
      </package>
      <package>
	<name>arm-none-eabi-binutils</name>
	<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
      </package>
      <package>
	<name>avr-binutils</name>
	<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
      </package>
      <package>
	<name>binutils</name>
	<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
      </package>
      <package>
	<name>i386-binutils</name>
	<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
      </package>
      <package>
	<name>mingw32-binutils</name>
	<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
      </package>
      <package>
	<name>powerpc-binutils</name>
	<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
      </package>
      <package>
	<name>powerpc64-binutils</name>
	<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
      </package>
      <package>
	<name>powerpc64le-binutils</name>
	<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
      </package>
      <package>
	<name>riscv32-unknown-elf-binutils</name>
	<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
      </package>
      <package>
	<name>riscv64-binutils</name>
	<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
      </package>
      <package>
	<name>riscv64-none-elf-binutils</name>
	<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
      </package>
      <package>
	<name>s390x-binutils</name>
	<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
      </package>
    </affects>
    <description>
      <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
	<p>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.</p>
      </body>
    </description>
    <references>
      <cvename>CVE-2025-69645</cvename>
      <url>https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-69645</url>
    </references>
    <dates>
      <discovery>2026-03-06</discovery>
      <entry>2026-10-25</entry>
    </dates>
  </vuln>