CVE-2026-90830: GNU Binutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.47 only

Published 2026-09-14. Last modified 2026-09-16.