CVE-2026-90829

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU Binutils version 2.47

Description A weakness in the SHT GROUP Section Handler component allows a local attacker to cause a null pointer dereference, which occurs when a program attempts to read from a memory address that is null. This issue is located within the bfd elf set group contents() function in the bfd/elf.c file.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.