CVE-2025-69651

low Red Hat
CVSS v3 Base Score
2.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score
0.0%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 96% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
Published: March 6, 2026 (69 days ago)
Last Modified: March 6, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat

Description

GNU Binutils thru 2.46 readelf contains a vulnerability that leads to an invalid pointer free when processing a crafted ELF binary with malformed relocation or symbol data. If dump_relocations returns early due to parsing errors, the internal all_relocations array may remain partially uninitialized. Later, process_got_section_contents() may attempt to free an invalid r_symbol pointer, triggering memory corruption checks in glibc and causing the program to terminate with SIGABRT. No evidence of further memory corruption or code execution was observed; the impact is limited to denial of service.

CWE

CWE-824

Affected Products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

References

🔗 bugzilla.redhat.com 🔗 www.cve.org 🔗 nvd.nist.gov 🔗 sourceware.org 🔗 sourceware.org