binutils: GNU Binutils: Information disclosure or denial of service via out-of-bounds read in bfd linker

A flaw was found in GNU Binutils. This vulnerability, a heap-based buffer overflow, specifically an out-of-bounds read, exists in the bfd linker component. An attacker could exploit this by convincing a user to process a specially crafted malicious XCOFF object file. Successful exploitation may...

CVE-2026-6846 Binutils: binutils: arbitrary code execution via malformed xcoff object file processing

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,...

USN-5762-1 binutils vulnerability

It was discovered that GNU binutils incorrectly handled certain COFF files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code...

GNU Binutils Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-36671)

GNU Binutils is a set of programming tools for creating and managing binary programs, object files, libraries, profile data and assembly source code. The binary file descriptor inventory used in GNU Binutils 2.29.1 is vulnerable to a denial of service. A remote attacker could exploit this...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-12451

The bfdxcoffreadarhdr function in bfd/coff-rs6000.c and bfd/coff64-rs6000.c in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause an out of bounds stack read via a crafted COFF image file...