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Fedora 36: FEDORA-2023-11256597a8 Moderate: NULL Pointer Dereference Fix

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Calendar Grey January 12, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Resolution for NULL pointer access issue in mingw-binutils update targeting Fedora 36 users. Critical security patch.
Backport fix for CVE-2022-4285.

Summary

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

understand Windows executables and DLLs.

Backport fix for CVE-2022-4285.

* Tue Jan 3 2023 Sandro Mani - 2.37-6

- Backport patch for CVE-2022-4285

[ 1 ] Bug #2152945 - CVE-2022-4285 mingw-binutils: binutils: NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string leads to segfault [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2152945

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-11256597a8' 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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Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 36
Version: 2.37
Release: 6.fc36
Summary: Cross-compiled version of binutils for Win32 and Win64 environments

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