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Fedora 32, 2020-28c78a6ac3 Moderate: Mingw-binutils Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey January 6, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Security enhancements in Fedora 32's mingw-binutils involve backporting patches that address various vulnerabilities, thus fostering secure cross-compilation setups.
Backport patches for CVE-2020-35493, CVE-2020-35494, CVE-2020-35495, CVE-2020-35496.

Summary

Cross compiled binutils (utilities like 'strip', 'as', 'ld') which

understand Windows executables and DLLs.

Backport patches for CVE-2020-35493, CVE-2020-35494, CVE-2020-35495,

CVE-2020-35496.

* Tue Dec 29 2020 Sandro Mani - 2.32-9

- Backport patches for CVE-2020-35493, CVE-2020-35494, CVE-2020-35495, CVE-2020-35496

[ 1 ] Bug #1911438 - CVE-2020-35493 mingw-binutils: binutils: heap-based buffer overflow in bfd_pef_parse_function_stubs function in bfd/pef.c via crafted PEF file [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1911438

[ 2 ] Bug #1911440 - CVE-2020-35494 mingw-binutils: binutils: usage of unitialized heap in tic4x_print_cond function in opcodes/tic4x-dis.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1911440

[ 3 ] Bug #1911442 - CVE-2020-35495 mingw-binutils: binutils: NULL pointer dereference in bfd_pef_parse_symbols function in bfd/pef.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1911442

[ 4 ] Bug #1911445 - CVE-2020-35496 mingw-binutils: binutils: NULL pointer dereference in bfd_pef_scan_start_address function in bfd/pef.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1911445

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-28c78a6ac3' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 32
Version: 2.32
Release: 9.fc32
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Summary: Cross-compiled version of binutils for Win32 and Win64 environments

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