Bug 2402841

Summary:	CVE-2025-11495 gdb: GNU Binutils Linker heap-based overflow [fedora-42]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jon Moroney <jmoroney>
Component:	gdb	Assignee:	Kevin Buettner <kevinb>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	42	CC:	ahajkova, fweimer, guinevere, jan, keiths, kevinb, mcermak, mkolar, suraj.ghimire7
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Whiteboard:	{"flaws": ["9731553e-c51f-43ec-a463-121fb371fe9d"]}
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Bug Blocks:	2402584

Description Jon Moroney 2025-10-09 17:52:28 UTC

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Comment 1 Kevin Buettner 2025-10-11 21:26:12 UTC

I've examined H.J. Lu's commit, 6b21c8b2ecfef5c95142cbc2c32f185cb1c26ab0, for the bug in question. It affects functions called by the linker - these same functions are not used by GDB.

Therefore, I'm closing this as NOTABUG.