Bug 2448116 - CVE-2025-69650 gdb: double free in readelf via crafted ELF binary with malformed relocation data [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2025-69650 gdb: double free in readelf via crafted ELF binary with malfor...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gdb
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Kevin Buettner
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2025-69650
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Reported: 2026-03-16 17:53 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2026-03-18 16:49 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2026-03-18 16:49:00 UTC
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2026-03-16 17:53:14 UTC 
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Comment 1 Kevin Buettner 2026-03-18 16:49:00 UTC 
Closing, as GDB is not affected by this problem.  The upstream fix posted by Alan Modra is to update_all_relocations() in binutils/readelf.c.  Thus only readelf, a standalone utility is affected; GDB does not and cannot call the function that has been fixed.
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