CVE-2026-90803CWE-119CWE-120

CVE-2026-90803

Medium · published September 14, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A security vulnerability has been detected in GNU Binutils 2.47. Affected by this vulnerability is the function elf_x86_64_relocate_section of the file bfd/elf64-x86-64.c of the component ld. Such manipulation of the argument roff leads to buffer overflow. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed publicly and may be used. Upgrading to version 2.48 addresses this issue. The name of the patch is 471130b39c03623ec6d78ece377ff4da3f6bfe7b. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
4.8 · CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
EPSS
0.00201 · 9.4th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-119 · Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer; CWE-120 · Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
Published
2026-09-14T21:17Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
gnu/binutilsall versions—
References (8)
https://github.com/r1ck9-2q/cve_summit/blob/main/Heap%20OOB%20readwrite%20and%20SEGV%20in%20%60elf_x86_64_relocate_section%60%20(bfdelf64-x86-64.c4530%20%204835)%20via%20malformed%20relocation.md · [email protected]https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34444 · [email protected]https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=471130b39c03623ec6d78ece377ff4da3f6bfe7b · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-90803 · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/submit/920280 · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/vuln/403305 · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/vuln/403305/cti · [email protected]https://www.gnu.org/ · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 SEP 03:33Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 14 SEP 16:45Z
    GNU Binutils ld elf64-x86-64.c elf_x86_64_relocate_section buffer overflow
    cvelistv5