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A mingw-binutils security update has been released for Fedora 33.



SECURITY: Fedora 33 Update: mingw-binutils-2.34-7.fc33


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2021-354441fcdd
2021-02-06 01:15:55.080706
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Name : mingw-binutils
Product : Fedora 33
Version : 2.34
Release : 7.fc33
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:

Security fix for CVE-2021-20197
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Jan 28 2021 Richard W.M. Jones - 2.34-7
- Backport fixes for CVE-2021-20197.
- Bump and rebuild for s390.
* Tue Jan 26 2021 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.34-5
- Rebuilt for   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_34_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1913743 - CVE-2021-20197 binutils: race window allows users to own arbitrary files
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1913743
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-354441fcdd' 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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