A flaw was found in binutils. A heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability exists when processing a specially crafted XCOFF (Extended Common Object File Format) object file during linking. A local attacker could trick a user into processing this malicious file, which could lead to arbitrary code execution, allowing the attacker to run unauthorized commands, or cause a denial of service, making the system unavailable.

The remote Fedora 44 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-f72d44d09e advisory.

    Fix CVE-2026-6846.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-ce402e1f82 advisory.

    Fix CVE-2026-6846.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 43 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-e0f5e87dd6 advisory.

    Fix CVE-2026-6846.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - A flaw was found in binutils. A heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability exists when processing a specially     crafted XCOFF (Extended Common Object File Format) object file during linking. A local attacker could     trick a user into processing this malicious file, which could lead to arbitrary code execution, allowing     the attacker to run unauthorized commands, or cause a denial of service, making the system unavailable.
    (CVE-2026-6846)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
312276	Fedora 44 : insight (2026-f72d44d09e)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
312247	Fedora 42 : insight (2026-ce402e1f82)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
312243	Fedora 43 : insight (2026-e0f5e87dd6)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
309646	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-6846	Nessus	Misc.	high

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