Description

A flaw was found in GNU Binutils. This vulnerability, a heap-based buffer overflow, specifically an out-of-bounds read, exists in the bfd linker component. An attacker could exploit this by convincing a user to process a specially crafted malicious XCOFF object file. Successful exploitation may lead to the disclosure of sensitive information or cause the application to crash, resulting in an application level denial of service.

INFO

Published Date :

2026-03-15T00:19:02.700Z

Last Modified :

2026-05-06T10:13:23.332Z

Source :

redhat
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2026-3442 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Gnu
  • Binutils
Redhat
  • Enterprise Linux
  • Hummingbird
  • Openshift
  • Openshift Container Platform
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2026-3442.

URL Resource
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-3442 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2443828 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-3442 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-3442 cve-icon
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