Fedora 37 Update: Critical NULL Pointer Issue in mingw-binutils Package

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

understand Windows executables and DLLs.

Backport patch for CVE-2023-25587.

* Tue Mar 7 2023 Sandro Mani - 2.38-7

- Backport patch for CVE-2023-25587

[ 1 ] Bug #2174099 - CVE-2023-25587 mingw-binutils: binutils: NULL pointer segmentation fault when accessing field `the_bfd` in function `compare_symbols` [fedora-36]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2174099

[ 2 ] Bug #2174111 - CVE-2023-25587 mingw-binutils: binutils: NULL pointer segmentation fault when accessing field `the_bfd` in function `compare_symbols` [fedora-37]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2174111

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-a86258ed64' 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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