Bug 2402844 - CVE-2025-11494 gdb: GNU Binutils Linker out-of-bounds read [fedora-42]
Summary: CVE-2025-11494 gdb: GNU Binutils Linker out-of-bounds read [fedora-42]
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gdb
Version: 42
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
low
low
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Assignee: Kevin Buettner
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["af843560-b40a-4edd-9db1-a...
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Blocks: CVE-2025-11494
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Reported: 2025-10-09 17:52 UTC by Jon Moroney
Modified: 2025-10-11 21:28 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2025-10-11 21:28:00 UTC
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Description Jon Moroney 2025-10-09 17:52:42 UTC 
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Comment 1 Kevin Buettner 2025-10-11 21:28:00 UTC 
The commit that fixes this linker bug, b6ac5a8a5b82f0ae6a4642c8d7149b325f4cc60a, changes code which GDB does not use.

Therefore, I'm closing this as NOTABUG.
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