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Fedora 34: 2021-7ca24ddc86 Moderate: mingw-binutils Memory Efficiency Fix

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Calendar Grey April 24, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Update for mingw-binutils resolves memory concerns in debugging segments, enhancing efficiency on Fedora 34 platforms.
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-2021-7ca24ddc86' 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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Change Log

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Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 34
Version: 2.34
Release: 8.fc34
Summary: Cross-compiled version of binutils for Win32 and Win64 environments

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