The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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. NOTE: this     is disputed by third parties because the observed behavior occurred only in pre-release code and did not     affect any tagged version. (CVE-2025-69651)

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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-69651

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