CVE-2026-3441: GNU Binutils

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in GNU Binutils. This heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability, specifically an out-of-bounds read in the bfd linker, allows an attacker to gain access to sensitive information. By convincing a user to process a specially crafted XCOFF object file, an attacker can trigger this flaw, potentially leading to information disclosure or an application level denial of service.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: affected versions not specified
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Red Hat Openshift Container Platform: version 4.0 only

Published 2026-03-16. Last modified 2026-09-01.