Out-of-bounds Read Affecting binutils package, versions [,2.47)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-18507963
  • published2 Aug 2026
  • disclosed27 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Jul 2026

NewCVE-2026-15003  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade binutils to version 2.47 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read in the ld process when handling specially crafted 32-bit XCOFF object files. An attacker can cause information disclosure or application crash by supplying a malicious file that manipulates unvalidated fields used as array indices.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1