CVE-2026-90830
mediumA security vulnerability has been detected in GNU Binutils 2.47.
Vendor / product: Gnu — binutils
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.
CVSS
5.3
5.3 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (cna@vuldb.com)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-09-14 23:18
Modified: 2026-09-16 15:28
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 1 day ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-27 06:53 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).
Affected products
gnu / binutils 2.47
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.
References
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16884 cna@vuldb.com
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34452 cna@vuldb.com
- https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-90830 cna@vuldb.com
- https://vuldb.com/submit/925229 cna@vuldb.com
- https://vuldb.com/vuln/403332 cna@vuldb.com
- https://vuldb.com/vuln/403332/cti cna@vuldb.com
- https://www.gnu.org/ cna@vuldb.com
Data sources
NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-27 06:53 UTC · record ↗