CVE-2026-4647 Binutils: out-of-bounds read in xcoff relocation processing in gnu binutils bfd library

A flaw was found in the GNU Binutils BFD library, a widely used component for handling binary files such as object files and executables. The issue occurs when processing specially crafted XCOFF object files, where a relocation type value is not properly validated before being used. This can caus...

CVE-2025-8224 GNU Binutils BFD Library elf.c bfd_elf_get_str_section null pointer dereference

A vulnerability has been found in GNU Binutils 2.44 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function bfdelfgetstrsection of the file bfd/elf.c of the component BFD Library. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. Local access is required to approach this attack...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

binutils is vulnerable to denial of service. A flaw in the BFD library allows an attacker, who submits a malicious file to an application linked with BFD, and using the DWARF functionality, could cause a an application crash through excessive memory usage...

CVE-2019-9073

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. It is an attempted excessive memory allocation in bfdelfslurpversiontables in elf.c...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-9072

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. It is an attempted excessive memory allocation in setupgroup in elf.c...