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



SECURITY: Fedora 36 Update: mingw-binutils-2.37-8.fc36


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-d6560c7198
2023-04-23 01:22:28.937479
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Name : mingw-binutils
Product : Fedora 36
Version : 2.37
Release : 8.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 fix for CVE-2023-1972.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Apr 14 2023 Sandro Mani - 2.37-8
- Backport patch for CVE-2023-1972
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2186583 - CVE-2023-1972 mingw-binutils: binutils: Illegal memory access when accessing a zer0-lengthverdef table [fedora-36]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2186583
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-d6560c7198' 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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