Bug 2460525 - CVE-2026-6846 insight: Binutils: Arbitrary code execution via malformed XCOFF object file processing [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-6846 insight: Binutils: Arbitrary code execution via malformed XCOFF...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: insight
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Patrick Monnerat
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["1ae54686-cc02-478d-ac92-8...
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Blocks: CVE-2026-6846
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Reported: 2026-04-22 08:05 UTC by Avinash Hanwate
Modified: 2026-05-05 00:54 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: insight-18.0.50.20260306-3.fc43 insight-18.0.50.20260306-3.fc42 insight-18.0.50.20260306-3.fc44
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Last Closed: 2026-05-03 01:18:17 UTC
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Description Avinash Hanwate 2026-04-22 08:05:27 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2026-04-24 08:29:53 UTC
FEDORA-2026-ce402e1f82 (insight-18.0.50.20260306-3.fc42) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 42.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-ce402e1f82

Comment 2 customercare 2026-04-24 13:38:59 UTC
Info: all insight*fc42 releases, are disfunctional due to the tcl/tk issues of missing dependencies itcl and itk 3.3

after downgrading the packages insight,itcl and itk  to latest fc41, they worked again. I have to assume, noone started the builds for testing in fc42 ;)

Comment 3 Patrick Monnerat 2026-04-25 00:52:39 UTC
> Info: all insight*fc42 releases, are disfunctional due to the tcl/tk issues of missing dependencies itcl and itk 3.3

3.3 is only the minimum version required, thus any version superior would be OK.

Unfortunately the itcl/itk/iwidgets maintainer did the porting to tcl 9 only for itcl, making the whole chain fail.
I left PRs for itk and iwidgets a long time ago, but after a ping, the maintainer answered by a promise but no action.
I don't know what to do. Maybe a provenpackager can handle the PRs, but I did not find a procedure to request such action.

For now, I keep the insight package building OK. It runs here with homemade substitutes to deficient packages, but I'm aware insight is not publicly operational in Fedora because of the above dependencies.

See https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/itk/pull-request/1 and https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/iwidgets/pull-request/1

Please be sure this situation upsets me too for a long time now.
Thanks for your remark.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2026-04-25 02:29:55 UTC
FEDORA-2026-e0f5e87dd6 has been pushed to the Fedora 43 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-e0f5e87dd6`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-e0f5e87dd6

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2026-04-25 02:54:29 UTC
FEDORA-2026-ce402e1f82 has been pushed to the Fedora 42 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-ce402e1f82`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-ce402e1f82

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2026-05-03 01:18:17 UTC
FEDORA-2026-e0f5e87dd6 (insight-18.0.50.20260306-3.fc43) has been pushed to the Fedora 43 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2026-05-03 01:21:35 UTC
FEDORA-2026-ce402e1f82 (insight-18.0.50.20260306-3.fc42) has been pushed to the Fedora 42 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2026-05-05 00:54:35 UTC
FEDORA-2026-f72d44d09e (insight-18.0.50.20260306-3.fc44) has been pushed to the Fedora 44 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.


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