Medium (5.5) in gnu binutils. EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The dump_section_as_bytes function in readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 accesses a NULL pointer while reading section contents in a corrupt binary, leading to a program crash.
Severity
CVSS 3.0
5.5 medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 68% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)