Bug 2450339

Summary:	CVE-2025-66866 binutils: BinUtils: Denial of Service via crafted PE file [fedora-42]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Marco Benatto <mbenatto>
Component:	binutils	Assignee:	Nick Clifton <nickc>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	42	CC:	dvlasenk, fweimer, jakub, josmyers, nickc, sipoyare, suraj.ghimire7
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Whiteboard:	{"flaws": ["1724afa3-cb81-404d-8b81-73f6bbe57b01"]}
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Bug Blocks:	2425830

Description Marco Benatto 2026-03-23 14:08:41 UTC

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Comment 1 Nick Clifton 2026-03-31 13:37:32 UTC

This bug was reported against a very old version of the binutils (2.26) and has been fixed since at least binutils 2.30.  Hence it has no applicability to this version of Fedora.