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CVE-2025-69652

GNU Binutils thru 2.46 readelf contains a vulnerability that leads to an abort (SIGABRT) when processing a crafted ELF binary with malformed DWARF abbrev or debug information. Due to incomplete state cleanup in process_debug_info(), an invalid debug_info_p state may propagate into DWARF attribute parsing routines. When certain malformed attributes result in an unexpected data length of zero, byte_get_little_endian() triggers a fatal abort. No evidence of memory corruption or code execution was observed; the impact is limited to denial of service.

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

Affected ports (19)

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
lang/gnatcross-binutils-aarch64gnatcross-binutils-aarch642.27_1unaddressedports@FreeBSD.org
lang/gnatdroid-binutilsgnatdroid-binutils2.27_1unaddressedjamie@catflap.org
lang/gnatdroid-binutils-x86gnatdroid-binutils-x862.27_1unaddressedports@FreeBSD.org

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	<name>amd64-binutils</name>
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	<name>arm-gnueabi-binutils</name>
	<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
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	<name>arm-none-eabi-binutils</name>
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	<name>avr-binutils</name>
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      <package>
	<name>binutils</name>
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	<name>i386-binutils</name>
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	<name>mingw32-binutils</name>
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	<name>powerpc-binutils</name>
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	<name>powerpc64-binutils</name>
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	<name>powerpc64le-binutils</name>
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	<name>riscv32-unknown-elf-binutils</name>
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	<name>riscv64-binutils</name>
	<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
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	<name>riscv64-none-elf-binutils</name>
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	<name>s390x-binutils</name>
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      <package>
	<name>gnatcross-binutils-aarch64</name>
	<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
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      <package>
	<name>gnatdroid-binutils</name>
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	<name>gnatdroid-binutils-x86</name>
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    <description>
      <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
	<p>GNU Binutils thru 2.46 readelf contains a vulnerability that leads to
	an abort (SIGABRT) when processing a crafted ELF binary with malformed
	DWARF abbrev or debug information. Due to incomplete state cleanup in
	process_debug_info(), an invalid debug_info_p state may propagate into
	DWARF attribute parsing routines. When certain malformed attributes
	result in an unexpected data length of zero, byte_get_little_endian()
	triggers a fatal abort. No evidence of memory corruption or code
	execution was observed; the impact is limited to denial of service.</p>
      </body>
    </description>
    <references>
      <cvename>CVE-2025-69652</cvename>
      <url>https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-69652</url>
    </references>
    <dates>
      <discovery>2026-03-06</discovery>
      <entry>2026-10-25</entry>
    </dates>
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