CVE-2025-69645

MEDIUM

5.5

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score5.5

SeverityMEDIUM

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionREQUIRED

Published3/6/2026

Last Modified3/20/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

gnu:binutils

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-400

References

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33637(cve@mitre.org)

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=cdb728d4da6184631989b192f1022c219dea7677(cve@mitre.org)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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