A vulnerability classified as critical was found in GNU Binutils 2.43. This vulnerability affects the function bfdelfgcmarkrsec of the file bfd/elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. The attack can be initiated remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The name of the patch is 931494c9a89558acb36a03a340c01726545eef24. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

netrc and default credential leak

Last updated 10 July 2026

Accounts. The issue was addressed with improved checks.

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.35.1. A heap-based buffer over-read can occur in bfdgetlsigned32 in libbfd.c because shentsize is not validated in bfdelfslurpsecondaryrelocsection in elf.c.