Security advisory

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  "id": "3062a797d7db3b0f9fcee0905e85d5af013202e451e91be73708c91748f44a34",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-69650",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2025-69650",
    "summary": "GNU Binutils thru 2.46 readelf contains a double free vulnerability when processing a crafted ELF binary with malformed relocation data. During GOT relocation handling, dump_relocations may return early without initializing the all_relocations array. As a result, process_got_section_contents() may pass an uninitialized r_symbol pointer to free(), leading to a double free and terminating the program with SIGABRT. No evidence of exploitable memory corruption or code execution was observed; the impact is limited to denial of service. NOTE: this is disputed by third parties because the observed behavior occurred only in pre-release code and did not affect any tagged version.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2025-69650",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2025-69650",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2025-69650"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "49d4d3fafa4ec4ff5a3460d91d5b1ed5286487db"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.46"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "binutils-2_46",
            "gdb-17-branchpoint",
            "gdb-16-branchpoint",
            "gdb-15-branchpoint",
            "gdb-14-branchpoint",
            "binutils-2_41-release",
            "gdb-13-branchpoint",
            "gdb-12-branchpoint",
            "gdb-11-branchpoint",
            "gdb-10-branchpoint",
            "gdb-9-branchpoint",
            "gdb-8.3-branchpoint",
            "users/ARM/embedded-gdb-master-2018q4",
            "users/ARM/embedded-binutils-master-2018q4",
            "gdb-8.2-branchpoint",
            "gdb-8.1-branchpoint",
            "users/ARM/embedded-gdb-master-2017q4",
            "users/ARM/embedded-binutils-master-2017q4",
            "gdb-8.0-branchpoint",
            "users/ARM/embedded-binutils-master-2016q4",
            "gdb-7.12-branchpoint",
            "gdb-7.11-branchpoint",
            "gdb-7.10-branchpoint",
            "gdb-7.9-branchpoint",
            "gdb-7.8-branchpoint",
            "gdb-7.7-branchpoint",
            "gdb_7_6-branchpoint",
            "gdb_7_5-branchpoint",
            "gdb_7_4-branchpoint",
            "gdb_7_3-branchpoint",
            "gdb_7_2-branchpoint",
            "gdb_7_1-branchpoint",
            "gdb_7_0-branchpoint",
            "gdb_6_8-branchpoint",
            "gdb_6_7-branchpoint",
            "gdb_6_6-branchpoint",
            "gdb_6_5-branchpoint",
            "gdb_6_4-branchpoint",
            "gdb_6_3-branchpoint",
            "gdb_6_2-branchpoint",
            "gdb_6_1-branchpoint",
            "gdb_6_0-branchpoint",
            "gdb_5_3-branchpoint",
            "gdb_5_2-branchpoint",
            "gdb-4_18-branchpoint"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-69650.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:52.978699027Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=81e90cf63a10ad11772c2437c8f2a88f1a00c739",
        "https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=ea4bc025abdba85a90e26e13f551c16a44bfa92",
        "https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=ea4bc025abdba85a90e26e13f551c16a44bfa921",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/69xxx/CVE-2025-69650.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-69650",
        "https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33698",
        "https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33700"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "isDisputed": true,
        "cna_assigner": "mitre",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/69xxx/CVE-2025-69650.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2025-69650",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 521570,
  "published_at": "2026-03-06T00:00:00+00:00"
}