CVE-2026-90830

medium

Description

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.

References

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https://vuldb.com/vuln/403332

https://vuldb.com/submit/925229

https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-90830

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34452

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=16884

https://www.gnu.org/

https://vuldb.com/vuln/403332/cti

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-14

Updated: 2026-09-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 4.8

Vector: 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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00152