GNU Binutils thru 2.46 readelf contains a double free vulnerability when processing a crafted ELF binary with malformed relocation data. During GOT relocation handling, dump_relocations may return early without initializing the all_relocations array. As a result, process_got_section_contents() may pass an uninitialized r_symbol pointer to free(), leading to a double free and terminating the program with SIGABRT. No evidence of exploitable memory corruption or code execution was observed; the impact is limited to denial of service. NOTE: this is disputed by third parties because the observed behavior occurred only in pre-release code and did not affect any tagged version.

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-fe96f3532b advisory.

    Backport fixes for multiple CVEs.


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 43 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-9174e6ea37 advisory.

    Backport fixes for multiple CVEs.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - GNU Binutils thru 2.46 readelf contains a double free vulnerability when processing a crafted ELF binary     with malformed relocation data. During GOT relocation handling, dump_relocations may return early without     initializing the all_relocations array. As a result, process_got_section_contents() may pass an     uninitialized r_symbol pointer to free(), leading to a double free and terminating the program with     SIGABRT. No evidence of exploitable memory corruption or code execution was observed; the impact is     limited to denial of service. NOTE: this is disputed by third parties because the observed behavior     occurred only in pre-release code and did not affect any tagged version. (CVE-2025-69650)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
305033	Fedora 42 : mingw-binutils (2026-fe96f3532b)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
305026	Fedora 43 : mingw-binutils (2026-9174e6ea37)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
301402	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-69650	Nessus	Misc.	high

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