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A mingw-binutils security update has been released for Fedora 36.



SECURITY: Fedora 36 Update: mingw-binutils-2.37-5.fc36


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-19538a3732
2022-11-07 21:05:46.593066
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Name : mingw-binutils
Product : Fedora 36
Version : 2.37
Release : 5.fc36
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 fixes for CVE-2021-3826 and CVE-2022-38533.
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ChangeLog:

* Sun Oct 30 2022 Sandro Mani - 2.37-5
- Backport patch for CVE-2021-3826 and CVE-2022-38533
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References:

[ 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
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-19538a3732' 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

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