CVE-2026-90802CWE-404CWE-476

CVE-2026-90802

Medium · published September 14, 2026

CVSS v3.1
4.4
EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A weakness has been identified in GNU Binutils 2.47. Affected is the function bfd_putl64 of the file bfd/libbfd.c of the component ld. This manipulation causes null pointer dereference. The attack requires local access. The exploit has been made available to the public and could be used for attacks. The project was informed of the problem early through a bug report but has not responded yet.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.4 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
4.8 · CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
EPSS
0.00183 · 7.5th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-404 · Improper Resource Shutdown or Release; CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2026-09-14T21:17Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
gnu/binutilsall versions—
References (7)
https://github.com/r1ck9-2q/cve_summit/blob/main/SEGV%20in%20%60bfd_putl64%60%20(bfdlibbfd.c989)%20during%20relocation%20output%20via%20malformed%20ELF.md · [email protected]https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34443 · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-90802 · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/submit/920277 · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/vuln/403304 · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/vuln/403304/cti · [email protected]https://www.gnu.org/ · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 SEP 03:33Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 14 SEP 16:30Z
    GNU Binutils ld libbfd.c bfd_putl64 null pointer dereference
    cvelistv5