MGASA-2021-0011

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    MGASA-2021-0011

    Published: 8 Jan 2021Last Modified: 16 May 2026

    Summary: Updated binutils packages fix security vulnerabilities

    Details: It was discovered that mingw-binutils and binutils suffered from two vulnerabilities which might lead to DoS. Null Pointer Dereference in debug_get_real_type could result in DoS (CVE-2020-16598). Use-after-free in bfd_hash_lookup could result in DoS (CVE-2020-16592).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0011.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27954, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/DJIW6KKY2TSLD43XEZXG56WREIIBUIIQ/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: binutils

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/binutils?arch=source&distro=mageia-7

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.33.1-1.1.mga7

    Affected versions

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