Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-2353-03 - An update for mingw components is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Issues addressed include a buffer overflow vulnerability.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: mingw components security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:2353-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2353
Issue date: 2024-04-30
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2023-1579
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Summary:
An update for mingw components is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description:
MinGW (Minimalist GNU for Windows) is a free and open source software development environment to create Microsoft Windows applications.
Security Fix(es):
* binutils: Heap-buffer-overflow binutils-gdb/bfd/libbfd.c in bfd_getl64 (CVE-2023-1579)
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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2023-1579
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.4_release_notes/index
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2180905
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-24343
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-24347
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-24350
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-24357
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-24368
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-24381
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-24400