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Fedora 42: binutils Moderate Memory Leak Fix FEDORA-2025-c5b7a12d2d

fedora
Calendar Grey August 2, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 42's binutils encountered a modest memory leak bug which has been addressed with backported updates. It's advisable to upgrade.
Backports patch to fix non-CVE 2025-8224

Summary

Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, including ar (for

creating, modifying and extracting from archives), as (a family of GNU

assemblers), gprof (for displaying call graph profile data), ld (the

GNU linker), nm (for listing symbols from object files), objcopy (for

copying and translating object files), objdump (for displaying

information from object files), ranlib (for generating an index for

the contents of an archive), readelf (for displaying detailed

information about binary files), size (for listing the section sizes

of an object or archive file), strings (for listing printable strings

from files), strip (for discarding symbols), and addr2line (for

converting addresses to file and line).

Update Information:

Backports patch to fix non-CVE 2025-8224

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate fedora patch memory leak binutils

Change Log

* Tue Jul 29 2025 Nick Clifton - 2.44-6 - Stop a potential null pointer dereference when examining corrupt DWARF debug information. (#2383860) (#2383873)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2383860 - CVE-2025-8224 binutils: Binutils BFD Null Pointer Dereference [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2383860 [ 2 ] Bug #2383873 - CVE-2025-8225 binutils: Binutils DWARF Section Handler Memory Leak [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2383873

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-c5b7a12d2d' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

Name: binutils
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 2.44
Release: 6.fc42
URL: https://sourceware.org/binutils
Summary: A GNU collection of binary utilities

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate fedora patch memory leak binutils

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