VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2026-6845

medium
Published 2026-04-22 · Modified 2026-05-20
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CVSS v3
5.0
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

A flaw was found in binutils, specifically within the `readelf` utility. This vulnerability allows a local attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by tricking a user into processing a specially crafted Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) file. The exploitation of this flaw can lead to the system becoming unresponsive due to excessive resource consumption or a program crash.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
50%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormaffected
debian debianbullseyeaffected
debian debianforkyaffected
debian debiansidaffected
debian debiantrixieaffected
suse slesaffected
redhat rhel6.0affected
redhat rhel7.0affected
redhat rhel8.0affected
redhat rhel9.0affected
redhat rhel10.0affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnubinutils-
redhat redhathardened_images-
redhat redhatopenshift_container_platform4.0

References

CWEs

CWE-476

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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