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Fedora 37 FEDORA-2022-667ee398b1 Critical: mingw-binutils Buffer Overflow

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Apply necessary patches for mingw-binutils to resolve urgent security vulnerabilities and incorporate recent updates pertaining to Fedora 37.
Backport fixes for CVE-2021-3826 and CVE-2022-38533.

Summary

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

understand Windows executables and DLLs.

Backport fixes for CVE-2021-3826 and CVE-2022-38533.

* Sun Oct 30 2022 Sandro Mani - 2.38-5

- Backport patch for CVE-2022-38533

[ 1 ] Bug #2124580 - CVE-2022-38533 mingw-binutils: binutils: heap-based buffer overflow in bfd_getl32() when called by strip_main() in objcopy.c via a crafted file [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2124580

[ 2 ] Bug #2132596 - CVE-2021-3826 mingw-binutils: libiberty: Heap/stack buffer overflow in the dlang_lname function in d-demangle.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2132596

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-667ee398b1' 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 37
Version: 2.38
Release: 5.fc37
Summary: Cross-compiled version of binutils for Win32 and Win64 environments

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