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Fedora 38: FEDORA-2023-15c6e4be28 Moderate: Heap Overflow in Binutils

fedora
Calendar Grey April 1, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Correction for heap-buffer-overflow in mingw-binutils resolves CVE-2023-1579, improving security in Fedora 38.
Backport fix for CVE-2023-1579.

Summary

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

understand Windows executables and DLLs.

Backport fix for CVE-2023-1579.

* Thu Mar 23 2023 Sandro Mani - 2.39-6

- Backport patch for CVE-2023-1579

[ 1 ] Bug #2181210 - CVE-2023-1579 mingw-binutils: binutils: Heap-buffer-overflow binutils-gdb/bfd/libbfd.c in bfd_getl64 [fedora-36]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2181210

[ 2 ] Bug #2181215 - CVE-2023-1579 mingw-binutils: binutils: Heap-buffer-overflow binutils-gdb/bfd/libbfd.c in bfd_getl64 [fedora-37]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2181215

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-15c6e4be28' 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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References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 38
Version: 2.39
Release: 6.fc38
URL:
Summary: Cross-compiled version of binutils for Win32 and Win64 environments

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