CVSS 4.0
1.9 lowCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:PCVE-2026-90803
Low (1.9) in gnu binutils. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A security vulnerability has been detected in GNU Binutils 2.47. Affected by this vulnerability is the function elf_x86_64_relocate_section of the file bfd/elf64-x86-64.c of the component ld. Such manipulation of the argument roff leads to buffer overflow. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed publicly and may be used. Upgrading to version 2.48 addresses this issue. The name of the patch is 471130b39c03623ec6d78ece377ff4da3f6bfe7b. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
6.8 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 9% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-119, CWE-120
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- gnu:binutils
References
- https://github.com/r1ck9-2q/cve_summit/blob/main/Heap%20OOB%20readwrite%20and%20SEGV%20in%20%60elf_x86_64_relocate_section%60%20(bfdelf64-x86-64.c4530%20%204835)%20via%20malformed%20relocation.md
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34444
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=471130b39c03623ec6d78ece377ff4da3f6bfe7b
- https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-90803
- https://vuldb.com/submit/920280