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Fedora 33: 2021-354441fcdd Critical: mingw-binutils Race Condition Fix

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Calendar Grey February 5, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A security patch for mingw-binutils tackles a race condition risk in Fedora 33, bolstering secure file management throughout platforms.
Security fix for CVE-2021-20197

Summary

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

understand Windows executables and DLLs.

Security fix for CVE-2021-20197

* Thu Jan 28 2021 Richard W.M. Jones - 2.34-7

- Backport fixes for CVE-2021-20197.

- Bump and rebuild for s390.

* Tue Jan 26 2021 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.34-5

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_34_Mass_Rebuild

[ 1 ] Bug #1913743 - CVE-2021-20197 binutils: race window allows users to own arbitrary files

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1913743

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-354441fcdd' at the command

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

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

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 33
Version: 2.34
Release: 7.fc33
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Summary: Cross-compiled version of binutils for Win32 and Win64 environments

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