RLSA-2026:2627 Moderate: gcc-toolset-14-binutils security update

Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, including ar for creating, modifying and extracting from archives, as a family of GNU assemblers, gprof for displaying call graph profile data, ld the GNU linker, nm for listing symbols from object files, objcopy for copying and translating object...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has a swapstdrelocout function in bfd/aoutx.h that is vulnerable to an invalid read of size 4 because of missing checks for relocs that could not be recognised. This vulnerability causes Binutils utilities lik...

CVE-2017-7304

The Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to an invalid read of size 8 because of missing a check in the copyspecialsectionfields function for an invalid shlink field before attempting to follow it. This vulnerability causes Binutils...

CVE-2017-7302

The Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has a swapstdrelocout function in bfd/aoutx.h that is vulnerable to an invalid read of size 4 because of missing checks for relocs that could not be recognised. This vulnerability causes Binutils utilities lik...