CVE-2026-90830

1.9 lowEPSS 0.2%

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. Impacted is the function _bfd_write_merged_section of the file bfd/merge.c of the component Section Merge. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. The attack needs to be performed locally. The exploit has been disclosed publicly and may be used. The project was informed of the problem early through a bug report but has not responded yet.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

1.9 low

CVSS: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:P

CVSS 3.1

5.3 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 5% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs: CWE-404, CWE-476
Published: 2026-09-14
Modified: 2026-09-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

gnu:binutils

References

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16884
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34452
https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-90830
https://vuldb.com/submit/925229
https://vuldb.com/vuln/403332

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