[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: mingw-binutils-2.34-4.fc33
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-18ec0bf4bb
2020-12-27 01:38:17.458526
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Name : mingw-binutils
Product : Fedora 33
Version : 2.34
Release : 4.fc33
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:
Backport patches for CVE-2020-16592 and CVE-2020-16598
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ChangeLog:
* Fri Dec 18 2020 Sandro Mani <manisandro(a)gmail.com> - 2.34-4
- Backport patches for CVE-2020-16592, CVE-2020-16598
* Wed Jul 29 2020 Sandro Mani <manisandro(a)gmail.com> - 2.34-3
- Fix ld --version output
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1906758 - CVE-2020-16598 mingw-binutils: binutils: Null Pointer Dereference
in debug_get_real_type could result in DoS [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1906758
[ 2 ] Bug #1906779 - CVE-2020-16592 mingw-binutils: binutils: use-after-free in
bfd_hash_lookup could result in DoS [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1906779
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