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Red Hat has issued a security advisory for Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs addressing multiple vulnerabilities in binutils packages. The update includes fixes for four CVEs: CVE-2026-3441, CVE-2026-3442, CVE-2026-4647, and CVE-2026-6846. These vulnerabilities relate to binutils components such as binutils, binutils-devel, binutils-gold, and binutils-gprofng for aarch64 and x86_64 architectures. The advisory does not specify affected versions or detailed technical impact but categorizes the severity as high. No known exploits in the wild have been reported. The advisory provides updated RPMs to mitigate these issues.

A moderate severity security vulnerability (CVE-2025-5244) exists in the GNU Binutils ld utility within the binutils package used by Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. The issue is a memory corruption flaw in the elflink.c elf_gc_sweep function. This vulnerability affects multiple architectures supported by Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. An update addressing this issue is available from Red Hat.

The binutils packages provide a collection of binary utilities for the manipulation of object code in various object file formats. It includes the ar, as, gprof, ld, nm, objcopy, objdump, ranlib, readelf, size, strings, strip, and addr2line utilities. Security Fix(es): * binutils: GNU Binutils Linker heap-based overflow (CVE-2025-11082) * binutils: GNU Binutils Linker heap-based overflow (CVE-2025-11083) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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 files), objdump (for displaying information from object files), ranlib (for generating an index for the contents of an archive), readelf (for displaying detailed information about binary files), size (for listing the section sizes of an object or archive file), strings (for listing printable strings from files), strip (for discarding symbols), and addr2line (for converting addresses to file and line). Security Fix(es): * binutils: GNU Binutils Linker heap-based overflow (CVE-2025-11083) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.