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Medium RLSA-2021:4591 1 CVE

Moderate: gcc-toolset-11-annobin security update

Published Nov 10, 2021 · Updated Feb 5, 2026

Summary

Annobin provides a compiler plugin to annotate and tools to examine compiled binary files.

Security Fix(es):

* Developer environment: Unicode's bidirectional (BiDi) override characters can cause trojan source attacks (CVE-2021-42574)

The following changes were introduced in annobin in order to facilitate detection of BiDi Unicode characters:

This update of annobin adds a new annocheck test to detect the presence of multibyte characters in symbol names.

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.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 gcc-toolset-11-annobin 0:9.85-1.el8_5.1

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2005819