Bug 2448135

Summary: CVE-2025-69652 gdb: abort in readelf via crafted ELF binary with malformed DWARF abbrev or debug information [fedora-all]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component: gdbAssignee: Kevin Buettner <kevinb>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: ahajkova, fweimer, guinevere, jan, keiths, kevinb, mcermak, mkolar, suraj.ghimire7
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2026-03-16 18:00:09 UTC 
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.
Comment 1 Kevin Buettner 2026-03-18 17:34:47 UTC 
Closing, as GDB is not affected by this problem. The upstream fix posted by Alan Modra is to process_debug_info() in binutils/dwarf.c. While this file is shared among standalone binutils tools, GDB has its own independent DWARF reader and does not link against binutils/dwarf.c.