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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2021-46195) ELSA-2022-8415: mingw-gcc security and bug fix update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2021-46195) ELSA-2022-8415: mingw-gcc security and bug fix update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/14/2022
Created
11/24/2022
Added
11/22/2022
Modified
11/22/2022

Description

GCC v12.0 was discovered to contain an uncontrolled recursion via the component libiberty/rust-demangle.c. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by consuming excessive CPU and memory resources.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mingw-gcc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mingw32-cpp
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mingw32-gcc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mingw32-gcc-c
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mingw32-libgcc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mingw64-cpp
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mingw64-gcc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mingw64-gcc-c
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mingw64-libgcc

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