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.
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| Title | binutils: abort in readelf via crafted ELF binary with malformed DWARF abbrev or debug information | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-617 | |
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| Description | 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. | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
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Updated: 2026-03-06T18:25:51.607Z
Reserved: 2026-01-09T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2025-69652
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-03-06T19:16:10.907
Modified: 2026-03-06T19:16:10.907
Link: CVE-2025-69652
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