Import Source
https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-79595.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-79595
Upstream
Published
2026-03-06T19:16:10Z
Modified
2026-04-21T04:34:47.597535Z
Summary
CVE-2025-69649 affecting package binutils 2.37-20
Details

GNU Binutils thru 2.46 readelf contains a null pointer dereference vulnerability when processing a crafted ELF binary with malformed header fields. During relocation processing, an invalid or null section pointer may be passed into display_relocations(), resulting in a segmentation fault (SIGSEGV) and abrupt termination. No evidence of memory corruption beyond the null pointer dereference, nor any possibility of code execution, was observed.

References

Affected packages

Azure Linux:2 / binutils

Package

Name
binutils
Purl
pkg:rpm/azure-linux/binutils

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Last affected
2.37-20

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-79595.json"