diff --git a/sys-libs/binutils-libs/binutils-libs-2.42-r1.ebuild b/sys-libs/binutils-libs/binutils-libs-2.42-r1.ebuild
index 7f924f8a301ce..fcdeb9f8509bd 100644
--- a/sys-libs/binutils-libs/binutils-libs-2.42-r1.ebuild
+++ b/sys-libs/binutils-libs/binutils-libs-2.42-r1.ebuild
@@ -77,6 +77,10 @@ pkgversion() {
 multilib_src_configure() {
 	filter-lto
 
+	# Workaround for lld-17 (bug #914640)
+	# Should be able to drop this w/ >=binutils-2.43
+	append-ldflags $(test-flags-CCLD -Wl,--undefined-version)
+
 	local myconf=(
 		# portage's econf() does not detect presence of --d-d-t
 		# because it greps only top-level ./configure. But not