[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: mingw-binutils-2.25-1.fc21

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-17586
2014-12-25 04:35:41
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Name        : mingw-binutils
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 2.25
Release     : 1.fc21
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/
Summary     : Cross-compiled version of binutils for Win32 and Win64 environments
Description :
Cross compiled binutils (utilities like 'strip', 'as', 'ld') which
understand Windows executables and DLLs.

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Update Information:

Fix various CVE's
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Dec 23 2014 Erik van Pienbroek <epienbro at fedoraproject.org> - 2.25-1
- Update to 2.25
* Tue Dec 23 2014 Erik van Pienbroek <epienbro at fedoraproject.org> - 2.24-5
- Fix CVE-2014-8501 (RHBZ #1162578 #1162583)
- Fix CVE-2014-8502 (RHBZ #1162602)
- Fix CVE-2014-8503 (RHBZ #1162612)
- Fix CVE-2014-8504 (RHBZ #1162626)
- Fix CVE-2014-8737 (RHBZ #1162660)
- Fix CVE-2014-8738 (RHBZ #1162673)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1162578 - CVE-2014-8501 mingw-binutils: binutils: out-of-bounds write when parsing specially crafted PE executable [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162578
  [ 2 ] Bug #1162602 - CVE-2014-8502 mingw-binutils: binutils: heap overflow in objdump [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162602
  [ 3 ] Bug #1162612 - CVE-2014-8503 mingw-binutils: binutils: stack overflow in objdump when parsing specially crafted ihex file [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162612
  [ 4 ] Bug #1162626 - CVE-2014-8504 mingw-binutils: binutils: stack overflow in the SREC parser [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162626
  [ 5 ] Bug #1162660 - mingw-binutils: binutils: directory traversal vulnerability [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162660
  [ 6 ] Bug #1162673 - mingw-binutils: binutils: out of bounds memory write [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162673
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update mingw-binutils' at the command line.
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