# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-91781"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-15T08:45:14.192Z"
updatedAt: "2026-09-15T13:39:13.272Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-91781"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-91781.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-91781"
title: "GNU Binutils ELF Section elf64-x86-64.c elf_x86_64_common_section_index null pointer dereference"
summary: "A security vulnerability has been detected in GNU Binutils 2.47. Affected is the function elf_x86_64_common_section_index of the file bfd/elf64-x86-64.c of the component ELF Section Handler. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. The attack needs to be performed locally. The exploit has been disclosed publicly and may be used. Upgrading to version 2.48 is able to address this issue. The identifier of the patch is 7322e9bc30cb282575a701c307851fd3d66fee68. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2.47","status":"affected"},{"version":"2.48","status":"unaffected"}],"vendor":"GNU","product":"Binutils"}]

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