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A gcc-toolset-10-gcc security update has been released for AlmaLinux.



ALSA-2021:4585 Moderate: gcc-toolset-10-gcc security update


Type:
security

Severity:
moderate

Release date:
2021-11-12

Description
Security Fix(es):
* Developer environment: Unicode's bidirectional (BiDi) override characters can cause trojan source attacks (CVE-2021-42574)
The following changes were introduced in gcc in order to facilitate detection of BiDi Unicode characters:
This update implements a new warning option -Wbidirectional to warn about possibly dangerous bidirectional characters.
There are three levels of warning supported by gcc:
"-Wbidirectional=unpaired", which warns about improperly terminated BiDi contexts. (This is the default.)
"-Wbidirectional=none", which turns the warning off.
"-Wbidirectional=any", which warns about any use of bidirectional characters.
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

References:
CVE-2021-42574

Updates packages:
gcc-toolset-10-gcc-plugin-devel-10.3.1-1.2.el8_5.x86_64.rpm

Notes:
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  ALSA-2021:4585 Moderate: gcc-toolset-10-gcc security update