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I'm closing this bug due to it not being exploitable on Fedora or RHEL. The bug in question is in code which reads COFF files, which is an object/executable format that is NOT used by Linux and for which support for outputting this format was removed in GCC 8.(GCC 8 was last used in Fedora 29.) A Fedora GDB user could attempt to load symbols from a COFF file brought in from some other OS, but, at worst, GDB would simply crash. While this is certainly a bug, it is definitely not a security concern. That said, since it is still a bug, albeit not a very important one, I have made a clone of this bug. See Bug 2238610.
(In reply to Kevin Buettner from comment #2) > I'm closing this bug due to it not being exploitable on Fedora or RHEL. > > The bug in question is in code which reads COFF files, which is an > object/executable format that is NOT used by Linux and for which support for > outputting this format was removed in GCC 8.(GCC 8 was last used in Fedora > 29.) A Fedora GDB user could attempt to load symbols from a COFF file > brought in from some other OS, but, at worst, GDB would simply crash. While > this is certainly a bug, it is definitely not a security concern. > > That said, since it is still a bug, albeit not a very important one, I have > made a clone of this bug. See Bug 2238610. Rejected as NOT a secuirty concern on our flaw page, working to notify mitre.