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Fedora 33: 2021-9bd201dd4d Critical: mingw-binutils Memory Issue

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The backport patch for mingw-binutils aims to address the memory consumption issues linked to CVE-2021-3487 in Fedora 33, improving performance and resource management for users
Backport patch for CVE-2021-3487.

Summary

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

understand Windows executables and DLLs.

Backport patch for CVE-2021-3487.

* Mon Apr 12 2021 Sandro Mani - 2.34-8

- Backport fix for CVE-2021-3487

[ 1 ] Bug #1947970 - CVE-2021-3487 mingw-binutils: binutils: excessive debug section size can cause excessive memory consumption in bfd's dwarf2.c read_section() [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1947970

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-9bd201dd4d' 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 33
Version: 2.34
Release: 8.fc33
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Summary: Cross-compiled version of binutils for Win32 and Win64 environments

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