CVE-2026-90801: GNU Binutils

Medium severity, CVSS 6.6. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A security flaw has been discovered in GNU Binutils 2.47. This impacts the function cache_bwrite of the file bfd/cache.c of the component ld. The manipulation of the argument nbytes results in buffer overflow. The attack requires a local approach. The exploit has been released to the public and may be used for attacks. The project was informed of the problem early through a bug report but has not responded yet.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.47 only

Published 2026-09-14. Last modified 2026-09-18.