PT-2026-34311 · Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10+6

Published 2026-04-22 · Updated 2026-04-22 · CVE-2026-6845

Mitre

CVSS v3.1

5.0

Medium

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Fix

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-6845

Affected Products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Red Hat Hardened Images

Red Hat Openshift Container Platform 4

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-6845 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2460012 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-6845 · Note