🛡️ CVE-2026-6845 — binutils

🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-476 NVD
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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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-6845 is classified as CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference. A pointer that can be null is used without a check, crashing the process.

Affected software

CVE-2026-6845 is recorded against 5 packages.

  • binutils
  • enterprise-linux
  • hardened-images
  • openshift-container-platform
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 22 April 2026 and last revised on 13 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

access.redhat.com
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bugzilla.redhat.com

CVE-2026-6845 on other distributions

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Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-476
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-04-22
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-07-13
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
binutils — —
enterprise-linux — —
hardened-images — —
openshift-container-platform — —
unknown — —

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