High (7.5) in gnu binutils. EPSS 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
GNU linker (ld) in GNU Binutils 2.28 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow while processing a bogus input script, leading to a program crash. This relates to lack of '\0' termination of a name field in ldlex.l.
Severity
CVSS 3.0
7.5 high
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 84% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)