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Fedora 37 Update 2023-b667dbdb59 Moderate: mingw-binutils Memory Issue

fedora
Calendar Grey April 22, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Addressing memory access challenges in mingw-binutils by implementing a revised patch for the benefit of Fedora 37 users and developers alike.
Backport fix for CVE-2023-1972.

Summary

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

understand Windows executables and DLLs.

Backport fix for CVE-2023-1972.

* Fri Apr 14 2023 Sandro Mani - 2.38-8

- Backport patch for CVE-2023-1972

[ 1 ] Bug #2186588 - CVE-2023-1972 mingw-binutils: binutils: Illegal memory access when accessing a zer0-lengthverdef table [fedora-37]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2186588

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-b667dbdb59' 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: 8.fc37
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Summary: Cross-compiled version of binutils for Win32 and Win64 environments

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