Astra Linux – Vulnerability in binutils

A issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library also known as libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. There is a heap-based buffer over-read in bfddoprnt in bfd.c, due to elfobjectp in elfcode.h mishandling an eshstrndx section of type SHTGROUP by omitting a trailing \0...

CVE-2026-31521

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: module: Fix kernel panic when a symbol stshndx is out of bounds The module loader doesn't check for bounds of the ELF section index in simplifysymbols: for i = 1; i shsize / sizeofElfSym; i++ const char name = info-strtab +...

CVE-2026-31521 module: Fix kernel panic when a symbol st_shndx is out of bounds

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: module: Fix kernel panic when a symbol stshndx is out of bounds The module loader doesn't check for bounds of the ELF section index in simplifysymbols: for i = 1; i shsize / sizeofElfSym; i++ const char name = info-strtab +...

CVE-2026-31521

The CVE-2026-31521 issue is in the Linux kernel module loader’s simplify_symbols() where an out-of-bounds st_shndx (eg SHN_XINDEX) could cause a kernel panic. The patch adds validation of st_shndx against the valid range before using it, preventing the potential crash. Several OSV entries (Debian...

PT-2026-34426

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description The module loader fails to verify the bounds of the ELF section index within the simplify symbols function. A symbol containing an out-of-bounds st shndx value, such as those defined as...

CLSA-2026-1776673982 binutils: Fix of 2 CVEs

CVE-2026-3441: heap OOB read via XTYLD xscnlen csect index - CVE-2026-3442: OOB read on rsymndx before symhashes indexing...

Security update for binutils (moderate)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for binutils Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:3616-1 Rating: moderate References: 1179898 1179899 1179900 1179901 1179902 1179903 1180451 1180454 1180461 1181452 1182252 1183511 1184620 1184794 PM-2767 SLE-18637 SLE-19618 SLE-21561 Cross-References:...