CVE-2025-69644

mediumCVSS 5covered by 1 sourcefirst seen 2026-08-06

CSIRTS triage

What: An unbounded loop in objdump's DWARF debug information parsing can cause denial of service when processing malformed binaries.
Who is affected: Systems using objdump (part of Binutils) to analyze untrusted or potentially malformed binary files.
Urgency: Medium; exploitation requires providing a crafted binary to the user, but can halt analysis tools.
Action: Update Binutils to version 2.46 or later.

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Low exploitation risk0.13% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 3% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.

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