RHSA-2026:34924MediumCVSS 5.0
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs Security Update
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
CVE-2026-6845 — binutils: Binutils: Denial of Service via crafted ELF file
🎯 Affected products4
- Red Hat Hardened Images
- binutils-main@aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
- binutils-main@src as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
- binutils-main@x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Hardened Images
✅ Remediation
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://images.redhat.com/ Workaround: To mitigate this issue, users should avoid processing untrusted or suspicious ELF files with the `readelf` utility. No specific configuration or operational control is available to prevent this vulnerability without affecting the intended functionality of `readelf`.
🔗 References (5)
- selfhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:34924
- externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-6845
- externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
- externalhttps://images.redhat.com/
- selfhttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_34924.json