CVE-2026-6845: GNU Binutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in binutils, specifically within the `readelf` utility. This vulnerability allows a local attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by tricking a user into processing a specially crafted Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) file. The exploitation of this flaw can lead to the system becoming unresponsive due to excessive resource consumption or a program crash.

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 Hardened Images: affected versions not specified
• Red Hat Openshift Container Platform: version 4.0 only

Published 2026-04-22. Last modified 2026-09-01.