CVE-2026-90831
mediumA vulnerability was detected in GNU Binutils 2.47.
Vendor / product: Gnu — binutils
A vulnerability was detected in GNU Binutils 2.47. The affected element is the function _bfd_elf_strtab_delref of the file bfd/elf-strtab.c of the component ELF String Table. The manipulation results in memory corruption. The attack requires a local approach. The exploit is now public 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 17:18
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 2 days 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=16886 cna@vuldb.com
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34454 cna@vuldb.com
- https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-90831 cna@vuldb.com
- https://vuldb.com/submit/925230 cna@vuldb.com
- https://vuldb.com/vuln/403333 cna@vuldb.com
- https://vuldb.com/vuln/403333/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 ↗