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Medium ALSA-2024:2353 1 CVE

Moderate: mingw components security update

Published Apr 30, 2024 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

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 AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 9 mingw-binutils-generic 2.41-3.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 mingw32-binutils 2.41-3.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 mingw64-binutils 2.41-3.el9

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1579
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2180905
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2024-2353.html