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A mingw-binutils security update has been released for Fedora 32.



SECURITY: Fedora 32 Update: mingw-binutils-2.32-9.fc32


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-28c78a6ac3
2021-01-07 01:13:10.653189
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Name : mingw-binutils
Product : Fedora 32
Version : 2.32
Release : 9.fc32
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 patches for CVE-2020-35493, CVE-2020-35494, CVE-2020-35495,
CVE-2020-35496.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Dec 29 2020 Sandro Mani - 2.32-9
- Backport patches for CVE-2020-35493, CVE-2020-35494, CVE-2020-35495, CVE-2020-35496
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1911438 - CVE-2020-35493 mingw-binutils: binutils: heap-based buffer overflow in bfd_pef_parse_function_stubs function in bfd/pef.c via crafted PEF file [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1911438
[ 2 ] Bug #1911440 - CVE-2020-35494 mingw-binutils: binutils: usage of unitialized heap in tic4x_print_cond function in opcodes/tic4x-dis.c [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1911440
[ 3 ] Bug #1911442 - CVE-2020-35495 mingw-binutils: binutils: NULL pointer dereference in bfd_pef_parse_symbols function in bfd/pef.c [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1911442
[ 4 ] Bug #1911445 - CVE-2020-35496 mingw-binutils: binutils: NULL pointer dereference in bfd_pef_scan_start_address function in bfd/pef.c [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1911445
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-28c78a6ac3' 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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