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A mingw-binutils security update has been released for Fedora 34.



SECURITY: Fedora 34 Update: mingw-binutils-2.34-11.fc34


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-286134c3c1
2022-02-06 02:01:15.080451
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Name : mingw-binutils
Product : Fedora 34
Version : 2.34
Release : 11.fc34
URL :   http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/
Summary : Cross-compiled version of binutils for Win32 and Win64 environments
Description :
Cross compiled binutils (utilities like 'strip', 'as', 'ld') which
understand Windows executables and DLLs.

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Update Information:

Backport patch for head overflow.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Jan 28 2022 Sandro Mani - 2.34-11
- Backport patch for heap overflow (#2043408)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2043410 - mingw-binutils: bintutils: heap overflow in libbfd.c [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2043410
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-286134c3c1' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
  https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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