Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Sep 14, 2026

CVE-2026-90831

Description

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.

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Affected products

GNU/Binutilsllm-fuzzy
Range: =2.47
Sourceware/Binutilsinferred
Range: =2.47

Patches

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References

sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cginvd
sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvd
vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-90831nvd
vuldb.com/submit/925230nvd
vuldb.com/vuln/403333nvd
vuldb.com/vuln/403333/ctinvd
www.gnu.orgnvd

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