Bug 2387628 - CVE-2025-8733 bison: Bison Assertion Reachability Vulnerability [fedora-42]
Summary: CVE-2025-8733 bison: Bison Assertion Reachability Vulnerability [fedora-42]
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: bison
Version: 42
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjun Shankar
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["f3e85696-a6f4-4af5-8a1d-8...
Depends On:
Blocks: CVE-2025-8733
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2025-08-11 14:54 UTC by Michal Findra
Modified: 2025-09-05 13:13 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2025-09-05 13:13:24 UTC
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Description Michal Findra 2025-08-11 14:54:11 UTC
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Comment 1 Florian Weimer 2025-09-05 13:13:24 UTC
Collin Funk writes that upstream successfully disputed the vulnerability:

“
Yes, but I got sidetracked and completly forgot to update here. Sorry
about that. They tagged the two CVEs as disuputed and mentioned that
they could not be reproduced [1][2]. I assume other sites such as Red
Hat's will be updated eventually to list the same [3].

VulnDB send a screenrecording from the original reporter where they ran
'bison' with all the POC files. They all Segmentation Fault, no failed
assertions or anything like the original report say.

Also, I realize now that obprintf.c is a glibc file. Gnulib (which is
imported into Bison) only has obstack.c and obstack_printf.c.

With that information, upon everything I mentioned in previous messages,
I am fairly confident that these CVEs are bogus.

Collin

[1] https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-8733
[2] https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-8734
[3] https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2025-8733
”

<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2025-08/msg00019.html>


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