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7.8High CVE-2026-6846 Gnu

A flaw was found in binutils.

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, allowing the attacker to run unauthorized commands, or cause a denial of service, making the system

What happened

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, allowing the attacker to run unauthorized commands, or cause a denial of service, making the system unavailable.

Does it affect you

Not enough information

No products recorded, so this cannot be matched against anything.

What to do

The vendor has not published remediation yet. We do not invent it.

Vendor's affected list

rhel
Exactly 6.0

Sources

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