Bug 2448123

Summary: CVE-2025-69649 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in readelf via crafted ELF binary with malformed header fields [fedora-all]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component: binutilsAssignee: Nick Clifton <nickc>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: dvlasenk, fweimer, jakub, josmyers, nickc, sipoyare, suraj.ghimire7
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2026-03-16 17:55:53 UTC 
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Comment 1 Siddhesh Poyarekar 2026-03-17 11:44:18 UTC 
Bogus CVE, please review the binutils security policy:

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=binutils/SECURITY.txt;hb=HEAD