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A security vulnerability has been detected in GNU Binutils 2.47. (CVE-2026-90803)

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Medium
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-90803gcveosvubuntu-cve-2026-90803cve-2026-90803ubuntu-pro-14-04-ltsubuntu-pro-16-04-ltsubuntu-pro-18-04-ltsubuntu-pro-20-04-ltsubuntu-22-04-ltsubuntu-24-04-ltsubuntu-26-10ubuntu-26-04-lts
Published: 09/14/2026 (09/14/2026, 17:17:00 UTC)
Source: GCVE Database
Product: binutils

Description

A security vulnerability has been detected in GNU Binutils 2.47. Affected by this vulnerability is the function elf_x86_64_relocate_section of the file bfd/elf64-x86-64.c of the component ld. Such manipulation of the argument roff leads to buffer overflow. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed publicly and may be used. Upgrading to version 2.48 addresses this issue. The name of the patch is 471130b39c03623ec6d78ece377ff4da3f6bfe7b. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

CVSS v3.1

Score 6.8medium

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
Low
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H

Affected software

Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTSmore threats →ghsa
binutils
pkg:deb/ubuntu/binutils?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy/trusty
Affected versions
=2.23.52.20130913-0ubuntu1=2.23.90.20131017-1ubuntu1=2.23.90.20131116-1ubuntu1=2.23.91.20131123-1ubuntu1=2.24-1ubuntu1=2.24-1ubuntu2=2.24-2ubuntu1=2.24-2ubuntu2=2.24-2ubuntu3=2.24-4ubuntu1=2.24-5ubuntu1=2.24-5ubuntu2=2.24-5ubuntu3=2.24-5ubuntu3.1=2.24-5ubuntu13=2.24-5ubuntu14=2.24-5ubuntu14.1=2.24-5ubuntu14.2=2.24-5ubuntu14.2+esm1=2.24-5ubuntu14.2+esm2=2.24-5ubuntu14.2+esm3=2.24-5ubuntu14.2+esm5=2.24-5ubuntu14.2+esm6=2.24-5ubuntu14.2+esm7=2.24-5ubuntu14.2+esm8
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTSmore threats →ghsa
binutils
pkg:deb/ubuntu/binutils?arch=source&distro=esm-infra/xenial
Affected versions
=2.25.1-6ubuntu1=2.25.51.20151022-0ubuntu2=2.25.51.20151022-0ubuntu3=2.25.51.20151027-0ubuntu1=2.25.51.20151028-0ubuntu1=2.25.51.20151106-0ubuntu1=2.25.51.20151113-1ubuntu1=2.25.51.20151113-2ubuntu1=2.25.90.20151125-1ubuntu1=2.25.90.20151125-2ubuntu1=2.25.90.20151211-0ubuntu1=2.25.90.20151211-0ubuntu2=2.25.90.20160101-1ubuntu1=2.25.90.20160101-1ubuntu2=2.26-2ubuntu1=2.26-3ubuntu1=2.26-4ubuntu1=2.26-5ubuntu1=2.26-6ubuntu1=2.26-7ubuntu2=2.26-8ubuntu1=2.26-8ubuntu2=2.26-8ubuntu2.1=2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04=2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.1=2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.3=2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.4=2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.5=2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.6=2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.7=2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8=2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1=2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm3=2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm4=2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm5=2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm6=2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm7=2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm9=2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm11=2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm12=2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm13=2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm14
Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTSmore threats →ghsa
binutils
pkg:deb/ubuntu/binutils?arch=source&distro=esm-infra/bionic
Affected versions
=2.29.1-4ubuntu1=2.29.1-6ubuntu1=2.29.1-7ubuntu1=2.29.1-8ubuntu1=2.29.1-10ubuntu1=2.29.1-12ubuntu1=2.30-4ubuntu1=2.30-5ubuntu1=2.30-7ubuntu1=2.30-8ubuntu1=2.30-9ubuntu1=2.30-10ubuntu1=2.30-11ubuntu1=2.30-14ubuntu2=2.30-15ubuntu1=2.30-20ubuntu2~18.04=2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04=2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.1=2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.2=2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3=2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.4=2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.5=2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.7=2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.8=2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.9=2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.9+esm1=2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.9+esm3=2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.9+esm4=2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.9+esm5=2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.9+esm13
Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTSmore threats →ghsa
binutils
pkg:deb/ubuntu/binutils?arch=source&distro=esm-infra/focal
Affected versions
=2.33-2ubuntu1=2.33.1-1ubuntu1=2.33.1-5ubuntu1=2.33.1-6ubuntu1=2.33.1-6ubuntu3=2.33.90.20200122-1ubuntu2=2.34-1ubuntu1=2.34-3ubuntu1=2.34-4ubuntu1=2.34-5ubuntu1=2.34-6ubuntu1=2.34-6ubuntu1.1=2.34-6ubuntu1.3=2.34-6ubuntu1.4=2.34-6ubuntu1.5=2.34-6ubuntu1.6=2.34-6ubuntu1.7=2.34-6ubuntu1.8=2.34-6ubuntu1.9=2.34-6ubuntu1.10=2.34-6ubuntu1.11=2.34-6ubuntu1.11+esm1=2.34-6ubuntu1.11+esm2
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSmore threats →ghsa
binutils
pkg:deb/ubuntu/binutils?arch=source&distro=jammy
Affected versions
=2.37-7ubuntu1=2.37-9ubuntu1=2.37-10ubuntu1=2.37.50.20220106-2ubuntu1=2.37.90.20220126-0ubuntu1=2.37.90.20220130-0ubuntu2=2.38-1ubuntu1=2.38-2ubuntu1=2.38-3ubuntu1=2.38-4ubuntu2=2.38-4ubuntu2.1=2.38-4ubuntu2.2=2.38-4ubuntu2.3=2.38-4ubuntu2.4=2.38-4ubuntu2.5=2.38-4ubuntu2.6=2.38-4ubuntu2.7=2.38-4ubuntu2.8=2.38-4ubuntu2.10=2.38-4ubuntu2.11=2.38-4ubuntu2.12
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSmore threats →ghsa
binutils
pkg:deb/ubuntu/binutils?arch=source&distro=noble
Affected versions
=2.41-5ubuntu1=2.41-6ubuntu1=2.41.50.20231206-1ubuntu1=2.41.50.20231214-1ubuntu1=2.41.50.20231227-1ubuntu1=2.41.90.20240122-1ubuntu1=2.42-2ubuntu1=2.42-3ubuntu1=2.42-4ubuntu1=2.42-4ubuntu2=2.42-4ubuntu2.3=2.42-4ubuntu2.4=2.42-4ubuntu2.5=2.42-4ubuntu2.6=2.42-4ubuntu2.7=2.42-4ubuntu2.8=2.42-4ubuntu2.10
Ubuntu:26.10more threats →ghsa
binutils
pkg:deb/ubuntu/binutils?arch=source&distro=stonking
Affected versions
=2.46-3ubuntu2=2.46.50.20260608-1ubuntu1=2.47-2ubuntu1=2.47-6ubuntu1
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSmore threats →ghsa
binutils
pkg:deb/ubuntu/binutils?arch=source&distro=resolute
Affected versions
=2.45-7ubuntu1=2.45-7ubuntu2=2.45-8ubuntu1=2.45.50.20251125-1ubuntu1=2.45.50.20251201-1ubuntu1=2.45.50.20251209-1ubuntu1=2.45.50.20260119-1ubuntu1=2.46-1ubuntu1=2.46-2ubuntu1=2.46-3ubuntu1=2.46-3ubuntu2

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Technical Details

Gcve Source
db.gcve.eu
Osv Id
UBUNTU-CVE-2026-90803
Osv Schema Version
1.7.0
Ecosystems
["Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS","Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS","Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS","Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS","Ubuntu:22.04:LTS","Ubuntu:24.04:LTS","Ubuntu:26.10","Ubuntu:26.04:LTS"]
Cvss Version
3.1
State
PUBLISHED

Threat ID: 6ad3f5342cdf04f6566585ee

Added to database: 10/17/2026, 22:22:44 UTC

Last updated: 10/17/2026, 23:14:51 UTC

Views: 1

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