Fedora 32 FEDORA-2020-f903e139b1 Critical: DoS Threat in Mingw-Binutils

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

understand Windows executables and DLLs.

Backport patches for CVE-2020-16592 and CVE-2020-16598

* Fri Dec 18 2020 Sandro Mani - 2.32-8

- Backport patches for CVE-2020-16592, CVE-2020-16598

[ 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

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-f903e139b1' 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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