On Mon Jul 20, 2026 at 11:46 AM CEST, Roland Kovács wrote:
> On Sun, 2026-07-19 at 22:43 +0200, Yoann Congal wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> On Thu Jul 16, 2026 at 11:58 AM CEST, Roland Kovács via 
>> lists.openembedded.org wrote:
>> > Binutils objdump contains a denial-of-service vulnerability when processing
>> > a crafted binary with malformed DWARF debug information. A logic error in
>> > the handling of DWARF compilation units can result in an invalid 
>> > offset_size
>> > value being used inside byte_get_little_endian, leading to an abort 
>> > (SIGABRT).
>> > A local attacker can trigger the crash by supplying a malicious input file.
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Roland Kovacs <[email protected]>
>> > ---
>> >  .../binutils/binutils-2.42.inc                |   1 +
>> >  .../binutils/binutils/CVE-2025-69645.patch    | 135 ++++++++++++++++++
>> >  2 files changed, 136 insertions(+)
>> >  create mode 100644 
>> > meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils/CVE-2025-69645.patch
>> 
>> More than a description of the vulnerability, what we need in the commit
>> message is a justification for the patch: i.e. why this is the patch we
>> should take to fix this CVE? In this case, this is trivial, this is the
>> patch referenced from the NVD page, so I've added it.
> I'll keep this in mind, thanks.
>
>> 
>> Also, the NVD entry looks wrong: only the 2.44 version is said impacted
>> but the patches to fix apply way more than that.
> NVD data marks any version affected, 2.44 is __mentioned__ in the description 
> but no filter or bound
> is set in the CVE metadata. 

The NVD CPE is:
"cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.44:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
If I read that correctly, that mean only 2.44 is affected.

>>  Can you reach them and fix the NVD data?
> I can ask upstream who issued the CVE to set 2.46 as unaffected/fixed based 
> on their bugtracker, but
> that's about it.
Thanks!
-- 
Yoann Congal
Smile ECS

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